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Transistors need connections to other components to be useful, and modern chips use more than twelve stacked metal interconnect layers above the transistors.
Dwarkesh Patel · What will computer chips look like in 2045? · 22 Oct 2026
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“We started with wiring. A transistor is only useful once it's connected to others, and on a modern chip, that takes more than a dozen layers of metal wires stacked above the transistors called interconnect.”29:41Report a misattribution
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