transistor
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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.
As chips pack in more transistors, we are approaching physical barriers.
Over the past century, research into atoms, electrons, and photons led to the invention of transistors and the foundation of today's computers.
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