>>719802946
I hate to say this but this time its not the guilt of any group of rubbing hand leprechaums.
It's just physics turning into quantum physics.
We spent from 1970 to 2010 just shrinking the whole thing, the traces, the transistors the everything, a dumb process of "just get better lens and positioning robots".
Every 18 months, we can use a mask twice as complicated, from 1970 to 2010.
But that's joever.
We can make smaller traces but they won't work, because electrons will just start to teleport around.
Anything under 10nm is a lie, it's just 10nm with more manufacturing layers, which makes chips need more steps to be finished and increase the price per wafer.
From 1970 to 2010, the wafer had a fixed cost of 4000-6000 dollars, and now, now it's going over 40000