That’s more than your mom.

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      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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          Breaking news: trans women now outnumber every other demographic and most other animal species on the planet. Ikea has discontinued all products except Blåhaj yet is still unable to keep up with demand. On the plus side though, average computer literacy is now at a record high

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    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.

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    And the average lifespan of a cat, listed on the cat article of wikipedia, is 13 years. Coincidence?

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    Pretty 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.

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    The archaeologists 1000 years from now are going to be so confused.

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          Imagine we made 13 sextillion of those transistors… That’s more than there are grains of sand on earth

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      I 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.

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      I knew it! Just like how they used to tell us that the little men inside our CRT TVs was just an electron beam.

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      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.

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        The numbers are totally off though.

        A current-gen iPhone SoC (or CPU, the sources are not very clear), nhas 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.

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        A 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