i've seen the claim that more transistors are manufactured in California than rain drops fall on the state - it is pretty dry but this was also some time ago - lots and lots of transistors in those digital chips
I have an old set of Encyclopaedia Britannica that I still use for reference material from time to time. Went to look up transistor. Didn't exist yet. Latest prinitng 1943. Back to Google I guess.
How many transistors in a Pentium or equivalent - 1 million?(probably more).
How many Pentiums shipped - a million?
That's a trillion transistors right there. YMMV.
Jan Didden
How many Pentiums shipped - a million?
That's a trillion transistors right there. YMMV.
Jan Didden
I think P4's and such these days have upwards of 100 million.
RAM chips surely have the most, I mean, up to a gig on a single chip? Figure at least four transistors per bit, that's what, 64 billion?
Tim
RAM chips surely have the most, I mean, up to a gig on a single chip? Figure at least four transistors per bit, that's what, 64 billion?
Tim
So, I was way off. Say 10 million P4 equivalents shipped @ 100 million each, that's 10^15 transistors.
Memory, say 1 million gig-equivalents shipped @ 64.10^9 each is 64.10^15.
Throw in half of that again as "miscellaneous" and we get around 10^17 transistors shipped.
That's a bunch, but probably still conservative.
Jan Didden
Memory, say 1 million gig-equivalents shipped @ 64.10^9 each is 64.10^15.
Throw in half of that again as "miscellaneous" and we get around 10^17 transistors shipped.
That's a bunch, but probably still conservative.
Jan Didden
1,000,000,000,000,000,000
be interesting to hand the guys in the pic a modern CPU & say here is way more...
dave
The invention of the transistor is generally stated as 1947, the first point contact transistor. Diodes made with galena crystals had been in use for many years prior.
PBS did a show about the transistor.
Try this in your google:
first transistor
PBS did a show about the transistor.
Try this in your google:
first transistor
And to think some/most (all?) of those Pentiums came from the Intel plant here in Oregon...It rains a heck of a lot here,but that's a whole-$%!&-load of transistors...
There's probably more transistors in this house,than there are raindrops that fall on it during a year.(and it rains alot in Portland.)
There's probably more transistors in this house,than there are raindrops that fall on it during a year.(and it rains alot in Portland.)
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