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by RetroTechie
831 days ago
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If you were to add up all transistors fabricated worldwide, up until <year>, such that total roughly matches the # on this beast, what year would you arrive? Hell, throw in discrete transistors if you want. How many early supercomputers / workstations etc would that include? How much progress did humanity make using all those early machines (or any transistorized device!) combined? |
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4004 from the 1970s used 2300 transistors, so it would have needed to sell billions.
Pentium from 1990s had 3M transistors, so it could hit our target by selling a million units.
I'm betting (without much research) that the Pentium line alone sold millions, and the industry as a whole could hit those numbers about 5 years earlier.