Video: There's a big problem with silicon—what's next?

Silicon transistors allowed computers to shrink from the size of houses to watches in a short time, but engineers are facing a problem: we've almost hit the limit on how small silicon transistors can get. SciShow explains the issue here and what's being done to get past it.

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