Chip-Shrinking May Be Nearing Its Limits

December 15th, 2007 in Technology / Semiconductors
Chip-Shrinking May Be Nearing Its Limits (AP)

Computer History Museum senior curator Dag Spicer looks at a replica of the first transistor at the museum in Mountain View, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007. The first transistor was built 60 years ago on Dec. 16, 1947. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

(AP) -- Sixty years after transistors were invented and nearly five decades since they were first integrated into silicon chips, the tiny on-off switches dubbed the "nerve cells" of the information age are starting to show their age.

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