transistor
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Each transistor contains a channel that opens and closes to regulate the flow of electrons.
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From punched paper cards and metal rods to vacuum tubes and transistors, modern computing has always relied on physical systems to represent 0s and 1s.
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No wonder AT&T missed every major technology transition after the transistor.
Moore’s Law says that every two years, the number of transistors packed into a microchip doubles.
It takes purified silicon rocks, a good source of which is sand in North Carolina, and fashions them into the 12-inch wafers that will later be imprinted with trillions of transistors to become chips.
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