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The transistors create a lot of heat because the current carrying capacity of the interconnect is severely limited which increases the time to switch the transistor from off to on or vv. This puts the transistor into a resistive domain where it consumes power and that leads to heat. If you use a superconducting interconnect that transition time will drop sharply and that in turn will lead to less power used by the transistor.


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