transistor

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.

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.

While Nexperia is a small player in the automotive-chip market overall, it is the market leader for a basic category of chips mainly consisting of transistors and diodes.

A major advantage of their design is that each artificial neuron fits within the footprint of a single transistor, whereas older designs required tens or even hundreds.