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Originally Posted by John E
Even though I work in the semiconductor industry, I am still amazed that we are now down to 45nm and even smaller feature sizes, having once been told that it would be hard to get much below 700nm. We now routinely put tens of millions of transistors on a single integrated circuit, which we turn around and sell for chump change.
What amazes me is how some many people take that technology for granted... and fully accept it.

If folks had any clue as to what went on in a typical cell phone call they would never complain about dropped calls, they would rather cheer that any calls worked at all.
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