Okay okay this is a long stretch but processor wise 45nm now is the standard and next wear we'll make a move to 32nm. But check out this little chart ... 4nm by 2022 More...
I remember Intel saying 16 or 22 was as far as we could go on silicon. cruising on TGDaily recently I saw that nano-lasers and nano-plasma uv lithography are have now been realized. I would expect a shift to optical and maybe quantum processors around 2015.
in 2022 i7 will be the p2 =} kids will say "OMG 45 nm O_O what sort of a sick ass weirdo still uses 45 nm "
erm in 2022 i will be 44 years so $@#%$@%^ INtel so slow tech improvements.......they can release it from now but all companies what the money catcher!!!!!!
I wll be quite young (30's) so yeah...woot. err..they can do it early if then would, but money!, damn.
Pentium 2 was what 250 nm ? that was 11 years ago, 2022 is in 12 years and a half... 45 to 4 ... not half bad
Can't wait. We will have 200 core processors and graphics cards pumping out insane power. Unfortunately we will still be playing crappy ports from the Xbox 900000 and PS16
There is no physical limit to how small we can go, people like to put numbers like 11-9 because with current technology quantum tunneling will take place between gaps in the transistors. But that's with current silicon technology, by 2022 I'd like to think we were using something different.
Should arrive sooner than this. Also i'm sure silicon has a limit on how small it can get before allot of problems pop up.
Memristor technology will be coming out long before that kind of shrink...next few years looks to be real promising! Psychlone
Well but what does that even mean? Will the node measurements still apply then the way they do now? It seems likely to me that by then our tech will have changed enough that current specs won't really be applicable
Gonna be 36 by then.. Not so far away thou.. I'm really looking forward too see how the technology improves by then..