All electronic devices in our daily lives - computers, smartphones etc. — consist of
billions of transistors, the key building block invented in Bell Labs in the late 1940s.
Looking back on it, I can definitely see the similarities in terms of what it takes to envision, manage, and build complex structures, whether that's accomplished on the enormous scale of a city or on the microscopic level of a semiconductor chip with
billions of transistors.
Not exact matches
Following Moore's Law, coined by one
of Intel's founders, Intel Core M Processor contains 1.3
billion 14 nanometer
transistors in a dual - core that increases power while reducing cost.
«However, making dozens
of devices, as we have done in our paper, is different than making a
billion, which is done with conventional
transistor technology today.
It is a simple device, made
of only 178
transistors compared with the
billions in today's silicon computers.
State -
of - the - art microprocessor chips contain several
billion transistors that switch signals flowing in electrical wires and interconnects.
Today's computer chips pack
billions of tiny
transistors onto a plate
of silicon within the width
of a fingernail.
Intel's «Ivy Bridge» quad - core chips, the third - generation Core i7 found found in the newest Mac and Windows PCs, has 1.4
billion transistors on a surface area
of 160 square millimeters — and there are chips with even more.
Adjusted for today's dollars, RCA and the other vacuum - tube companies spent upward
of $ 1
billion trying to make the
transistor work in the market as it existed at that time.
Our communications are powered by a global wireless network
of over two
billion cellphones, each using hundreds
of millions
of transistors.
It has 2
billion transistors, or basic on - off switches, on one piece
of silicon.
The company says the 845 features «
billions»
of transistors and took three years to build.
The chip is built with a total 5.5
billion transistors, which is 2.5
billion more than that
of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835.
The Fury X will be a liquid cooled, single - GPU proposition boasting
of 4096 stream processors, 8.9
billion transistors and delivering 8.6 teraflops at $ 649, slated for availability this June 24.