Emyrssentry t1_jeen86w wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:43 PM

Reply to comment by richiehustle in ELI5: Why computer chips nanometers progress is gradual? Why can not the technology bump up to the lowest nm possible immediately since the concept and mechanisms of it is already known and studied by richiehustle

Because there are parts to the situation where you calculate it out, and it might work, but then you go to build your fabrication machines, and nothing you do gives you the precision necessary to make the transistors that small.

And now you've just put 3 years of intense engineering and money into a product that doesn't even make it to market.