Stupid sexy transistors
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Great! Now that you've said that, republicans are going to try to outlaw transistors. Or, at the very least, round them up and try to "fix" them into basic resistors.
Oh my, all my Trans Sisters!!
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sexty
Thank you.
Sexty was just right there!!
Hey, I only have one mom!
But how many sisters do you have that were AMAB?
I've got 3 AMAB siblings but they really don't like it when I call them sister.
Have you tried three snaps in their face in a Z-pattern afterward?
Invented December 23, 1947, therefore, on average, we made a danged lot of them every year since.
Would love to see a graph, the annual amount probably increased exponentially.
I would guess a doubling period of roughly every 12-24 months. Actually probably much shorter since that would be same number of chips/year.
Sextillion: 10³⁶
Edit: look at sneezycats comment. 10²¹ it is.
It's actually 10^21^, short scale sextillions.
Oh. Thanks for the hint.
Wikipedia says: two different naming systems for integers powers of ten but they use the same name. TIL.
Yeah it can be confusing, esp when you speak two languages that use the opposite scale
And the average lifespan of a cat, listed on the cat article of wikipedia, is 13 years. Coincidence?
And on 1 transistor there are 3 pins. When you put 1 and 3 together you get 13. Coincidence?! I think not!
python logic
Dude you been staring at your fingers again huh?
And on 1 finger there are 3 sections. When you put 1 and 3 together you get 13. Coincidence?! I think not!
Aha! I knew there was a coincidence somewhere! You tracked it down!
Pretty sure few of them are hoarded by electronic hobbyist like 2N2222A, BD139, BC547, IRFZ44N, IRF540N, IRF9540 and some more. ~~Yes I have electronic addiction issue.~~
Don't call me out like that! (also 2n3904 and 2n3906 my beloved)
Ordering in bulk because they'll "come in useful one day"
stop I beg you 😭
The archaeologists 1000 years from now are going to be so confused.
That's what they tell you to hide the bees.
I knew it! Just like how they used to tell us that the little men inside our CRT TVs was just an electron beam.
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The only other thing I've heard of on the scale of sextillion is mole, a unit of measure for 602 sextillion particles in a quantity based on the number of atoms in 12 grams of carbon 12
One iPhone has about 8 billion transistors in it, so makes sense
13 sextillion transistors is about 1625 billion transistors per human, though - or just over 200 iPhones' worth of transistors per person. That's still about an order of magnitude higher than I'd have guessed.
The numbers are totally off though.
A current-gen iPhone SoC (or CPU, the sources are not very clear), nhas about 19 billion transistors. That does not include transistors from flash memory. Following the numbers it does also not include RAM.
IPhone transistor count becomes completely irrelevant when you start looking at flash chips. Even a 16GB flash drive can contain 64 billion transistors.
A modern data center GPU has 100 billion or more, and think of all the infrastructure and household devices that have microchips in them as well
Does the transistors in CPUs and GPUs count?
Of course, why would they not?
Well they sure doesn't look like the image :-)
But yes ofc they do.
Imagine we made 13 sextillion of those transistors... That's more than there are grains of sand on earth
I was about to say, between my PC, my laptop, my cell phone, my NAS, my printer, my wireless router, my ethernet switch, and all the SBCs and microcontrollers in my electronics kit, not to mention peripherals and accessories, I'm probably sitting within 2 meters of a trillion transistors.
what they just call me
How many are used to run Java?
There is a point on the scale at which a quantity of something stops making sense. Some sextillion transistors, billions of Java devices, and so on. I always found such statistics weird, as it is just too hard to imagine the numbers. It is far easier to rationalise logically.
The basis for digital computing, that has been aggressively miniaturised and multiplied for decades? Yes, I believe those would be absurdly abundant.
A programming language designed to be platform independent, around the dawn of portable computing? I am sure it must have found its way to a lot of devices.