transistors
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A cadence where the number of transistors on a given piece of silicon doubled roughly every two years took hold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
For decades, chip advances came almost exclusively from innovations in how transistors were designed and how small they were.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Their computations, which are in effect the switching on and off of microscopic silicon transistors that make up a chip, are actually silent.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
In conventional electronics, transistors act as switches that control whether electrical current can pass through a circuit.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
It governs the behavior of transistors and integrated circuits, which are the essential components of electronic devices such as televisions and computers, and is also the basis of modern chemistry and biology.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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