lousydTIL there are approximately 13 sextillion transistors in existence
AatubeHey, I only have one mom!
Flying SquidBut how many sisters do you have that were AMAB?
I’ve got 3 AMAB siblings but they really don’t like it when I call them sister.
Have you tried three snaps in their face in a Z-pattern afterward?
BonerManThat’s what they tell you to hide the bees.
I knew it! Just like how they used to tell us that the little men inside our CRT TVs was just an electron beam.
rubikcuberStupid sexy transistors
Great! Now that you’ve said that, republicans are going to try to outlaw transistors. Or, at the very least, round them up and try to “fix” them into basic resistors.
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Thank you.
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Sextillion: 10³⁶
SneezycatIt’s actually 10^21^, short scale sextillions.
Oh. Thanks for the hint.
Wikipedia says: two different naming systems but the same name. TIL.
KSP AtlasYeah it can be confusing, esp when you speak two languages that use the opposite scale
Invented December 23, 1947, therefore, on average, we made a danged lot of them every year since.
ShadowedcrossWould love to see a graph, the annual amount probably increased exponentially.
I would guess a doubling period of roughly every 12-24 months. Actually probably much shorter since that would be same number of chips/year.
One iPhone has about 8 billion transistors in it, so makes sense
13 sextillion transistors is about 1625 billion transistors per human, though - or just over 200 iPhones’ worth of transistors per person. That’s still about an order of magnitude higher than I’d have guessed.
itslilithA modern data center GPU has 100 billion or more, and think of all the infrastructure and household devices that have microchips in them as well
The numbers are totally off though.
A current-gen iPhone SoC has about 19 billion transistors. That does not include transistors from flash memory. Following the numbers it does also not include RAM.
IPhone transistor count becomes completely irrelevant when you start looking at flash chips. Even a 16GB flash drive can contain 64 billion transistors.
And the average lifespan of a cat, listed on the cat article of wikipedia, is 13 years. Coincidence?
Aha! I knew there was a coincidence somewhere! You tracked it down!
And on 1 transistor there are 3 pins. When you put 1 and 3 together you get 13. Coincidence?! I think not!
MinnesotaGoddamDude you been staring at your fingers again huh?
And on 1 finger there are 3 sections. When you put 1 and 3 together you get 13. Coincidence?! I think not!
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The archaeologists 1000 years from now are going to be so confused.
Crafter72Pretty sure few of them are hoarded by electronic hobbyist like 2N2222A, BD139, BC547, IRFZ44N, IRF540N, IRF9540 and some more. Yes I have electronic addiction issue.
pankuleczkaplDon’t call me out like that!
Ordering in bulk because they’ll “come in useful one day”
stop I beg you 😭
Does the transistors in CPUs and GPUs count?
Captain AggravatedI was about to say, between my PC, my laptop, my cell phone, my NAS, my printer, my wireless router, my ethernet switch, and all the SBCs and microcontrollers in my electronics kit, not to mention peripherals and accessories, I’m probably sitting within 2 meters of a trillion transistors.
Of course, why would they not?
Well they sure doesn’t look like the image :-)
But yes ofc they do.
Imagine we made 13 sextillion of those transistors… That’s more than there are grains of sand on earth
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whotookkarlThe only other thing I’ve heard of on the scale of sextillion is mole, a unit of measure for 602 sextillion particles in a quantity based on the number of atoms in 12 grams of carbon 12
How many are used to run Java?
There is a point on the scale at which a quantity of something stops making sense. Some sextillion transistors, billions of Java devices, and so on. I always found such statistics weird, as it is just too hard to imagine the numbers. It is far easier to rationalise logically.
The basis for digital computing, that has been aggressively miniaturised and multiplied for decades? Yes, I believe those would be absurdly abundant.
A programming language designed to be platform independent, around the dawn of portable computing? I am sure it must have found its way to a lot of devices.