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The microchip era is giving way to the megachip age

In an effort to make to continue making chips faster and our devices more capable, chip industry is shrinking transistors to get better performance (REUTERS) — In an effort to make to continue making chips faster and our devices more capable, chip industry is shrinking transistors to get better performance **(REUTERS)**

10 min read . Updated: 30 Jul 2022, 03:53 PM IST Christopher Mims, The Wall Street Journal

To continue making our gadgets more powerful, engineers have worked out a new way to get around the barriers to making microchips faster: Just make them bigger.

If microchips were cities, the new, industrywide strategy for making them better could be summed up in one word: sprawl. In some case, the chips inside our most powerful devices are taking up so much real estate they hardly qualify as “micro" anymore.

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