In the fast-shrinking realm of electronics, micro is already retro. Today's smallest transistors—the fundamental com- ponents of information processing—are about one-thousandth the width of a human hair and operate at several billion cycles per second, or gigahertz. That's fine for listening to CDs or playing The Sims. But it's way too bulky and nowhere near fast enough for the next generation of devices.
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