Zooming in on a microchip
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3. Natan_el_Tigre commented 10 years ago
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4. drienuldrie commented 10 years ago
My asperger is doing overtime!
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5. irishgek commented 10 years ago
Using graphics cards as an example ...its just amazing how things have changed.
Back in 1999 I had a a Geforce 256 (back then it was stupidly expensive)
A 250 Nano meter process 111mm² square die area and a whopping 23 million transistors
...today my Gpu has 7.1 billion of them at 28nm and an area of 561 mm²
So from 207k transistors per mm² to well over 12 million ....
Just think if you went back to 1947 and told them, one day we will fit 12 million of these on something smaller than a flea!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Replica-of-first-transistor.jpg
Back in 1999 I had a a Geforce 256 (back then it was stupidly expensive)
A 250 Nano meter process 111mm² square die area and a whopping 23 million transistors
...today my Gpu has 7.1 billion of them at 28nm and an area of 561 mm²
So from 207k transistors per mm² to well over 12 million ....
Just think if you went back to 1947 and told them, one day we will fit 12 million of these on something smaller than a flea!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Replica-of-first-transistor.jpg
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6. loadrunner commented 10 years ago
I wonder how small we can go.
+4 1. h8isgr8 commented 10 years ago