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sonoma1993

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What exaclty is an transistor? how do they work? How does intel, amd, nvidia, and ati get like 135 million transistors into 90nm?
 
a transistor is like a valve in a dam. turn the valve off, the water stops flowing, turn it on, the water saturates .. etc.

how do they do it? lithography research + $ 😉

howstuffworks.com
 
They're not putting all 135 million transistors into some sort of 90nm sized area. 90nm describes the process technology or feature size.
 
you can think of it like a light switch on the wall. on one side of the switch there is a current waiting to get through to the light bulb. something has to happen for the current to get through - you have to flip the switch. this is analagous to how a transistor works.

when you put a current in the base, the collector and emitter connect and the current passes through. when you flip the lightswitch, that is the same as the current going to the base. when the current in the wall makes it to the bulb, that is the result of you "flipping the switch" in the transistor.
 
Originally posted by: CanOWorms
They're not putting all 135 million transistors into some sort of 90nm sized area. 90nm describes the process technology or feature size.
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lol. Yeah. If we ever get the point where we could stick 135 million transistors in a 90nm by 90nm area, I think we don't need to be investing in scaling anymore. I mean, given the size of a die, what could you possibly due with 100x10^15 transistors....
 
Originally posted by: TuxDave
Originally posted by: CanOWorms
They're not putting all 135 million transistors into some sort of 90nm sized area. 90nm describes the process technology or feature size.
Click to expand...

lol. Yeah. If we ever get the point where we could stick 135 million transistors in a 90nm by 90nm area, I think we don't need to be investing in scaling anymore. I mean, given the size of a die, what could you possibly due with 100x10^15 transistors....
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You can't even fit anywhere near 135 million atoms in a 90nm square area...
 
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