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A single modern computer chip can pack in tens of billions of transistors, each smaller than a virus

Transistors etched into the latest processor designs now measure just a few nanometers across, placing them well below the ...
The Economist

Node names do not reflect actual transistor sizes

Pat gelsinger, boss of Intel, a chipmaker, loves to brag that his firm is leading the charge in semiconductor technology by entering the “angstrom era”. The angstrom, named in honour of Anders Jonas ...
Engadget

IBM's 2nm transistors matter because of their shape, not size

IBM announced last week that it has developed the technology to produce chips with 2nm transistors. You may remember from other episodes of our explainer show, Upscaled, that smaller transistors ...
EDN

What’s the actual size of an individual transistor?

Do you remember my recent blog titled How big is a bacterium compared to a transistor? Well, I waffled on for ages about a variety of different things, during the course of which I made a really silly ...
Hexus

Intel 14nm and AMD/TSMC 7nm transistors micro-compared

Overclocking expert der8auer examined an Intel Core i7-8700K under a scanning electron microscope (SEM) a couple of years ago when that processor was one of Intel's best consumer offerings. This was ...
Ars Technica

cache size vs. transistor count? OR a challenge to my professor!!

so i got in this pissing match with my cs instructor. he was telling the class that there are four transistors per bit of L2 cache on any given cpu with on-die, full-speed cache (not actually the ...
Ars Technica

A transistor made using two atomically thin materials sets size record

The ever-shrinking features of transistors etched in silicon have always required pushing the cutting edge of manufacturing technology. The discovery of atomically thin materials like graphene and ...