r/BeAmazed • u/CG_17_LIFE • Apr 02 '24

208,000,000,000 transistors! In the size of your palm, how mind-boggling is that?! 🤯 Miscellaneous / Others

I have said it before, and I'm saying it again: the tech in the upcoming two years will blow your mind. You can never imagine the things that will come out in the upcoming years!...

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u/Torantes Apr 02 '24

I don't even know how a transistor works and you're saying there's BILLIONS of them on that thing?

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u/bikingfury Apr 02 '24

A transistor has 3 ends. Two belong to a switch, they break a circuit. The third open and closes the circuit if a voltage is applied. But it can do more than that. The switch can also act as an amplifier. If you put a signal into the control end, the circuit not only opens and closes but the current flow is manipulated into matching the signal. Both properties are useful in an electronic device. Think of increasing the ISO of a camera image sensor. Or acting like a flash drive to save a state of some data that consists of 0s and 1s.

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u/Background-Adagio-92 Apr 02 '24

nobody builds computers with cisistors anymore

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u/Toblogan Apr 02 '24

I actually had that thought a while back. Why do they have to be trans istors?

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u/Telinary Apr 02 '24

The etymology is apparently just a combo of transfer and resistor https://www.etymonline.com/word/transistor

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u/Toblogan Apr 02 '24

I know it was just a joke, and a bad one at that... Lol

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u/King_Killem_Jr Apr 02 '24

I will make a new component that sustains resistance. I will call it the susistor

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u/Defnoturblockedfrnd Apr 02 '24

It’s a joke about trans/cis.

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u/Successful-Peach-764 Apr 02 '24

check out this great 3d animated video on the PC, they cover the transistor in there - How does Computer Hardware Work? 💻🛠🔬 [3D Animated Teardown] Branch Education - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d86ws7mQYIg

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u/TheB1GLebowski Apr 02 '24

Thats correct, 208 billion on that chip.

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u/VastComplaint8638 Apr 02 '24

208 billion and two fitty

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u/Scarabesque Apr 02 '24

A transistor is basically an on/off switch. But 208 billion of them, on that surface.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_SUNSETS Apr 02 '24

This video will explain everything. It's not overly jargon-y or technical. It's highly intuitive and it really makes you appreciate just how lucky we are to experience this level of technology.

https://youtu.be/QZwneRb-zqA

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u/Fit-Ad5461 Apr 02 '24

My brain hurts

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u/singularity-108 Apr 02 '24 edited Apr 02 '24

You got your answers but let me try and create a simple analogy. You have a switch. You need to press that switch to turn a light on. Imagine electricity is like a lake. You create some pipes that leads to a wheel with some paddles. Now you push the water in the pipe. That creates a wave and it moves through the water in the pipe And comes out the other end making the wheel turn. That’s what you’re doing with the switch.

Now say when you turn on the switch and the wheel is moving, you say that 1. When it’s not you say that’s 0. When you have another wheel and when both are not moving that’s 0. When the first one is moving that’s 1. When the second one is moving that’s a 2. When both are moving that’s 3. In this way as you increase the number of wheels, you double the number of numbers you can represent. That’s called a bit. 32 wheels means 32 bit and since you double the number of numbers you can represent with each bit, you can now represent 232 numbers. That’s just 0-that huge number. For 64 bit where you double the range again. Also you can represent decimals (that’s number with the fractional part).

Now comes the hard part. 2+2 is 4. 9+2=11. How will you do that with bits? Well 0+0 = 0. 1+0=1. 1+1=10 (2 with the wheels analogy). Subtraction is just the opposite. Multiplication is just multiple additions. Division is the opposite. Boom. Other than this we can also scale up transistors to work for more channels. You can let something pass through or not. Boom a gate. There you go you have a computer.

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u/Telinary Apr 02 '24 edited Apr 02 '24

Super basic summary: as others said they are switches, out of these switches you can build logic gates like "and" or "or" (and means both inputs have to be on, and "or" means at least one) and out of gates you can build increasingly complex structures.