Besides which, the field-effect transistor camp has plenty of fight left.

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It may very well have gone back to the telephone call that Bardeen and Brattain had made when they told him that they had come up with a - they had the transistor effect in the laboratory.

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But then there is another difficulty: making the components exactly the right size is even more crucial for a quantum-effect device than for a regular transistor.

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The cheap revolution is a first-order effect of Moore's Law. (Moore's Law predicts the transistor density on silicon chips will double every 18 to 24 months.) For years if you said "Moore's Law, " people presumed you were describing a future of ever more powerful computers.

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