IBM declares processor scaling dead?

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This isn't so good for the computer biz. It's hardly the end of the world, because our boffins (as the Brits at the Register like to say) are hard at work coming up with other ways to make things faster. But I think everyone had expected conventional lithography to take us down to the 60-nm level. How am I going to get my G5-powerbook now?

"Somewhere between 130-nm and 90-nm the whole system fell apart. Things stopped working and nobody seemed to notice." He added, "Scaling is already dead but nobody noticed it had stopped breathing and its lips had turned blue."