Why are CPU and GPU manufacturers trying to make transistors smaller and smaller instead of making the chips bigger so they can put more transistors?

Question

Why are CPU and GPU manufacturers trying to make transistors smaller and smaller instead of making the chips bigger so they can put more transistors?

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Answer 1

We’re talking square laws here. Twice the size is 4 times the cost.

Also, on average the size of the transistors gets reduced with about the square root of 2 each generation.