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How small can a transistor get?

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For decades, engineers have been working to create smaller and smaller transistors to fit ever-larger numbers of them onto computer chips, all in the name of greater processing power. Now, in the age of artificial intelligence (AI), that effort has turned into an all-out race. So how small can a transistor actually get? And is smaller even still the goal? To understand the answer, first you need to know what a transistor is. "If you take a computer or your mobile phone and you were to pry it ope

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