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transistor

[tran-zis-ter] / trænˈzɪs tər /
NOUN
personal stereo
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Export controls on advanced lithography equipment have prevented Chinese manufacturers from fitting more transistors on their chips, resulting in more energy-intensive systems, according to Jack Gold, founder and principal analyst at J.Gold Associates.

From MarketWatch

Advanced AI chips now have 100 billion to 200 billion transistors, and could have a trillion by the end of the decade.

From Barron's

IBM says 2nm designs can fit up to 50 billion transistors, tiny components smaller than a virus, on a chip the size of a fingernail.

From Barron's

For years, chipmakers pushed back against the memory wall by shrinking transistors, the tiny switches that handle computations and store data, and packing more of them onto each chip.

From Science Daily

Scaled up, the chip industry drinks like a metropolis of several million people, except instead of flushing toilets they’re rinsing transistors measured in atoms.

From MarketWatch