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These quantum effects make them lose their certain characteristics and the transistors, which
are supposed to be closed behave as if they are open.
The cost of manufacturing equipment also keeps increasing as we need to use ever
quirky mechanisms to fabricate our chips. An upcoming technology that can restore back the
leaps we saw before is multi semiconductor die chips.
These chips rely on using more than one semiconductor chip instead of making bigger
monolithic chips , this incredible technology is still in its infancy and is currently used by AMD to
make processors which use 4 different dies instead of a conventional single one. Through this
they can make incredibly fast high core count chips for a fraction of the price of the competition
(Intel).
The semiconductor industry is extremely competitive , just as most could not have
imagined playing GTA on a mobile phone today , we cannot imagine the technologies that will
drive innovation tomorrow.