A 1959 PDP-1 had about 2,800 discrete transistors in it. Even an 8088, the original IBM PC CPU, had 29,000 devices–over ten times the PDP-1. Some large chips today have billions of devices onboard.

If transistors could replace vacuum tubes in the phone system, then they certainly could replace them in computers too. The army, with its need for ever-faster and more efficient calculations ...

Noted hardware historian and reverse-engineer Ken Shirriff recently found the exact transistors in the original ... The image seen above is a photo of the CPU die of the original Pentium chip ...

[Joe Wingbermuehle] has an interest in computers-of-old, and some past experience of building computers on perfboard from discrete transistors, so this next project, Q2, is a complete ...

Semiconductor devices called transistors are the tiny electronic switches that run computations inside our computers. Scientists in the US built the first silicon transistor in 1947. Before that ...

Or, if you want to use the same scale as the Core Ultra chip, the old processor had 0.000006 billion transistors and a minimum feature size of 6,000 nanometres. Naturally, the modern CPU is quite ...

A landmark development led by researchers from the University of Glasgow could help create a new generation of diamond-based ...

Transistor: A transistor is an electronic switch or amplifier. It is the simplest component of semiconductor chips. A typical Intel Core processor has billions of transistors. The term "gate" in ...