I think it jocularly meant "use something with fewer gates and a smaller cross section", not "use a smaller feature size". Or I could easily have misremembered: this was all last century.
> Or I could easily have misremembered: this was all last century.
Don't understate the difficulty of remembering. This was all last millennium.
Important not to also understate that some of us spent more time in the former than the current.
True! Smaller and closer the units, more probability that the particle would hit something useful.