![]() ![]() ![]() It made the hearing aid a practical reality, transformed popular culture with the creation of the transistor radio and reduced the size of the computer from a whole room to something you can wear on your wrist.”įor consumer devices like the low-voltage radio chips used in a hearing aids, for example, up to 42 million transistors can be placed on less than 7mm 2 of silicon.Īnd of course, GPUs delivering visual images of the quality and definition in displays that we have all come to take for granted have been a key beneficiary. The technology has transformed the world. “The typical smartphone boasts around 85 billion of them. “Today, 10 million transistors could be placed in a pin head,” said Beets. Intel had already passed the one-million transistors-per-chip milestone by 1989.Īnd despite the passage of another 27 years since that publication and many forecasts of its imminent demise, a stretched version Moore’s Law still seems to apply: engineers are still doubling the component count of a microchip at regular intervals, with costs continuing to fall too. This continual remorseless shrinking process keeps the electronics industry in a state of perpetual revolution.” The number of transistors that can be crammed onto a microchip doubles every 18 months as the size of the transistor halves every three years. In a book marking Electronics Weekly‘s 30th year of publication Leon Clifford wrote about Gordon Moore’s 1965 observation, later dubbed in the industry as ‘Moore’s Law’: Imagination Technologies has created a neat and informative timeline of the development of the transistor market ( click on the image to enlarge it). Timeline of the development of the transistor compiled by Imagination Technologies ![]()
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