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Moore's Law turns 40

Transistors are go! In the '50s, transistor production was in the millions. In 2003, it hit a quintillion, or a trillion million. Prices have gone the opposite direction; some people estimate that a transistor now costs about the same as one printed newspaper character. And transistors have gone way beyond diminutive. Intel says some are so small that about 200 million could fit on the head of a pin.

Source: VLSI Research, Intel

Chart: Transistors are go! In the '50s, transistor production was in the millions. In 2003, it hit a quintillion, or a trillion million. Prices have gone the opposite direction; some people estimate that a transistor now costs about the same as one printed newspaper character. And transistors have gone way beyond diminutive. Intel says some are so small that about 200 million would fit on the head of a pin.

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by April 4, 2005 6:27 PM PDT
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Moore's Law article of finding of magazine
by April 23, 2005 4:52 PM PDT
I find it absolutely out of this world to know how molicurally(?) minute transisters have become. I cannot fathom 200 million of them on the head of a pinhead! Absolutely blows my finite mind, I tell you.
This article is very intellectually digestible to the human mind to the point of it being expanding to the mind.
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