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Silicon's limit is 0.7V and there is no trick against that.

No matter how efficient is your power supply, you will be losing electricity very very rapidly within single centimetres.

That's why there is no way to work around the need to move the voltage conversion on chip.

In the future we may even increase IC voltage to reduce the copper losses for very low power, but huge devices.



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