February 6, 2008: Two Billion Transistors

[classicman]

Originally Posted by linknoid

While 2 billion transistors sounds like a lot, it's not quite as intimidating when you consider that that's only about 31000 transistors wide. Kind of like how you can cross a 2500 square mile area in under an hour, because it's really only 50 miles by 50 miles.

Interesting comparison. never looked at it that way.