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New Intel chip has over 2 billion transistors...
Topic Started: Feb 4 2008, 11:13 AM (186 Views)
Norbert
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7223145.stm

that's rather a lot.

<yikes>

I remember when the first Pentium came out with a world record five million, although that was about 1994....!
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Red Andy
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I assume these transistors are a tad smaller than the ones I used to use in my GCSE Systems & Control lessons, or else it'd be a rather big chip.
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Red Andy,Feb 4 2008
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I assume these transistors are a tad smaller than the ones I used to use in my GCSE Systems & Control lessons, or else it'd be a rather big chip.

<roflmao>
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Norbert
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Not so much a big chip as a small continent.....
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