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Publication
IBM J. Res. Dev
Paper
Miniaturization of electronics and its limits
Abstract
The long-continued advance of the performance of information processing technologies has been based on miniaturization of components. The history of miniaturization is presented. The history suggest that limits proposed by Landauer in the 1960s will be reached in two or three decades.