Comments by "Anders Juel Jensen" (@andersjjensen) on "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Atomic Layer Deposition" video.

As a programmer your videos about the never ending toils and tribunals of the lithography world reminds me not to wasteful with system resources. It's clear that at some point we're going to hit a wall called "physics don't care about your computing needs", so while I've seen stupendous performance gains from my Commodore 64 to my Ryzen 7950X3D that party is tapering off.
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@clintcowan9424 Moore's law is an observation that turned into a cadence target. Moore actually revised it twice in the early years. And, depending on how exactly you interpret it, it tapered off a decade ago. But it is precisely quantum phenomena that starts screwing things up. Since electrons have this uncanny habit of "teleporting" themselves through barriers classical physics say they can't penetrate, at a certain point the thickness of the oxide insulator, needed for ever smaller gates, becomes a problem. We're already having massive leakage problems. Once we start reaching those thicknesses that is going to get exponentially worse.
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@10001000101 Room temperature superconductors won't help us unless we also find lower leakage gates and a much faster switching semiconductor. And even then we eventually run into the problem that signals propagate at the speed of light (in that medium), so if we want faster... there is only smaller distances to help us, as we cant speed up light.
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@kyebean Trails and tribunals when autocorrect doesn't duck things up.
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