Originally Posted by hackapelite

Electronics need to be made smaller. As lovely? said, the bigger the component the harder and more inconvenient (power consumption, heat dissipation issues etc.) it becomes to get more power out of it, it's all physics and really the only ways to get around this would be to shrink stuff or alter laws of physics, and out of these two I believe the former would be more practical, hence that's what we're doing.