transistor
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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
When she addressed the audience, Su pulled one of the company’s chips out of her pocket and said it had 185 billion transistors and took nine months to make.
“We have targeted our R&D investments to create new products and technologies that will enable even faster and more energy-efficient transistors, chips and systems and drive our growth in the years ahead,” Hill said.
From MarketWatch
The U.S. has banned the sale of tools known as extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, which inscribe silicon wafers with microscopic patterns filled by billions of transistors.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
