Re:Old technology (Score 2)

This is not an issue for laptops, PDA's, or the physical size of the computer under you desk. What this does affect is VLSI (ULSI?) IC's. Reduced tranistor size means lower operating voltages. Which means you can scale down supply voltage, which reduces electric field strength and power dissapation in the tranisistors. This leads to boosted device density and switching speed. In short this allows VLSI designers to create faster, more complex and powerfull IC's and/or ones that require less power(this could affect your laptops and PDA's). As for powerfull and complex look at the IBM Power4 processor it contains 170 million transistors, SIA (Semiconductor Industry Association) predicted in 1999 that by 2002 microprocessors would contain 76 million transistors !!! This is all because of the incredible shrinking transistor.

It's really nice that you think its time for a major computing breakthrough. Personally, I think its about time for a major transportation breakthough, something that really catapults transportation into a new era, not unlike the invention of the wheel itself ;)