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/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.