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Originally Posted by gary
Last month, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
celebrated the 75th anniversary of the invention of the transistor.
These chip on wafer devices beat those 6 transistor radios we had in the
60's by packing 78.84 billion transistors into their design.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/special-re...nsistor-at-75/ |
Hi Gary,
just 20 years ago people were boasting that they had a dual CPU
as opposed to everyone else who had a single core CPU
on their laptop or desktop.
They were only 32 bit processors and could only address 3 Gig of RAM.
Then we had quad cores and all 64 bits after that.
I got an 8 core desktop 14 months ago and the price was very reasonable
and it has exceeded my expectations.
It's hard to believe that they could fit 96 cores on one CPU now ! -
the progress is astronomical.
cheers
Allan