transistor
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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.
From Science Daily
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.
And it is in Taiwan where it makes its most advanced chips, which today have transistors as small as two nanometers.
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