Should We Shrink Because We Can?

No

During my 30 something years in engineering, I've noticed a disturbing trend - parts get smaller and my eyesight gets worse. I do most of my "hands on" work under a magnifying glass these days.

But to address the question - as long as there's a market for it, shrink, baby, shrink!

I especially enjoy the higher density in FPGAs. Being able to put everything in one chip makes design, simulation, fabrication, testing (if you're smart) easier. And more density implies better power efficiency, and that's always a good thing.

Just put it in a package that I can see.

The why is simple- if you don't your competition will, grabbing your market share and soon you will be out of business.

New potential state of matter?
How about a reference to this. I am aware of solid , liquid, gas and plasma, what else you got?

Who will specify the applications?
Again simple- the customer always determines what apps sell and what don't. If it does not benefit the customer it will soon be gone from the market place.

You also forgot about super flulids ie helium at about 1 kelvin can actually pass through most containers... hahaha also thinks there is another state at extreme cold temps called the bode-eistien effect (not sure on spelling)

Pehaps I should expand my monosylabic answer.
No...unless there is a good reason.
Del

Most opticians will have an optical instrument for measuring the power of lenses, in dioptres.

Del