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by lopmotr 2543 days ago
Transistors in individual packages are called discrete components. Even if they use the same technology as ICs, they're still discrete. You can certainly build useful analog and power circuits with only discrete components. Somebody even made a CPU from them [1] which was a much bigger circuit than TFA's IC video card will be so it's worth distinguishing truly discrete from simple ICs.

[1] https://monster6502.com/