Can’t wrap my head around how fast the transistors and stuff works at that tiny of scale…
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If you imagine that you’re a messenger passing data from one transistor to another.
If the transistor is the size of a house, you have to walk through 3 rooms to pass on the data.
If the transistors are the size of a room you only have to walk a few steps
If they are the size of a small table you can just hand over the data quickly without having to walk.
Same deal with transistors, when they’re smaller the length the data has to travel is shorter
A cpu being small is beneficial in terms of speed. If transistors are right next to each other electricity takes less time travelling.
You might want to read about [Dennard Scaling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling). For things like integrated circuits, smaller is better (to a point). Performance per watt improves as you shrink the circuits.
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