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Engineers cram 100 billion transistors onto a microchip (www.science.org)
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By pushing into a new dimension, engineers at IBM have nearly doubled the number of transistors they can fit on a microchip—the sort of device that animates your computer—cramming nearly 100 billion of them into a square centimeter. Announced yesterday, the advance continues a historic but slowing trend known as Moore’s Law that since the 1960s has seen the number of transistors on a chip double roughly every 2 years. But it underscores how engineers can no longer simply shrink transistors. To realize the increase, IBM researchers stacked them.

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[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 14 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

So, these great new chips that are twice as good will drive prices down for older consumer grade chips, right?

Right???

[–] zurchpet@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 hours ago

So far this is only research.
Now they have to figure out to make it scale for production.
Still some months or rather years before we see this in consumer devices.
And no. This won't change humanity and capitalist greed.