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by wtallis 2379 days ago
> Some time back, around the 34nm era, CPU components stopped getting materialy smaller.

> Transistor count plateaued.

No. Transistor count has continued to increase. The "nm" numbers still correlate with overall transistor density. The change is that transistor density is no longer a function purely of the narrowest line width that the lithography can produce. Transistors have been changing shape and aren't just optical shrinks of the previous node.