Quote:
Originally Posted by gary
When the founders of Fairchild Semiconductor, fresh from having invented
the transistor at Bell Labs in New Jersey, moved to Mountain View in
California, they sold their first batch of 100 transistors to IBM for $150
a pop.
If the aviation industry had gone through the same sort of price reduction
factors as the semiconductor industry, you could buy your own
A380 Airbus today for around 4 cents.
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You can get 5+ teraflop phones now, the computing power of the best Super Computers in the world when Bill Clinton walked into office was about 10% of a teraflop. They say, you have more computing power in your hands today than was available to Bill Clinton as PotUS. (Around the late 90's for the 1st teraflop super computer.)
Floating point operations:
FLOPs are simple a math procedure and used as a benchmark for CPU speeds for a long time. Bit like spinning your wheels, smoke looks good, but useless for much else.