Eli5: How are they able to make transistors so extremely small?

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Eli5: How are they able to make transistors so extremely small?

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The real answer is probably: because it is highly worthwhile to do, that justifies throwing trillions of dollars onto this problem.

The technical problem is not how to make any particular one small (we could basically assemble them atom by atom), but how to pack millions of transistors into close proximity.

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