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by AnimalMuppet 47 days ago
Or more complex than, you know, one of the CPUs it can produce, with four billion transistors, which is not "mostly the same thing repeated"?

Off topic: Does it blow anyone else's mind that a DRAM chip has more transistors on it than there are humans on the planet?

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>> Off topic: Does it blow anyone else's mind that a DRAM chip has more transistors on it than there are humans on the planet?

Yes.

Accepting these facts is one thing but "getting over the astonishment" never happens for me.

I mean, your brain has an order of magnitude more neurons than there are people on the planet. I think humans are just incapable of wrapping our heads around the sheer number of tiny things that fit in small macroscopic spaces.