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How do transistors work? How many are used in CPU now opposed to the 1990's?Not sure...
There are less...

Hope i keep my B+ Homework avareage...Ask Google. http://www.google.com/search?q=How+do+transistors+work%3F&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-aEarly commercial transistors were all bipolar. But by the 1990's that were mostly replaced with nice gentle CMOS.
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1 billion Internet-connected PCs
Intel estimates that there are approximately 1 billion Internet connected PCs worldwide today.

10,000 times as many transistors
The Intel® Core 2 Duo processor has 291 million transistors, more than 10,000 times as many transistors as the Intel 8088 CPU in the first IBM PC which had only 29,000 transistors.

The first IBM PC
The first IBM PC did not include a mouse, graphical user interface with Windows or ICONS, 3-D or animation capability or a hard drive to save files. The most common monochrome model cost approximately $3,000.

Today's PC
Today, consumers can BUY a basic desktop PC with a workhorse Intel® Celeron® D processor, a 160 gigabyte (160 billion bytes) capacity hard drive, 256 megabytes (256 million bytes) of RAM, and a flat-panel monitor for less than $500 (U.S.). They can also buy a super high performance PC with an Intel® Core™2 Duo processor, 4 gigabytes of RAM , a 500 gigabyte hard drive, and deluxe graphics and sound systems for less than $2,300.
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Today, consumers can buy a basic desktop PC with a workhorse Intel® Celeron® D processor, a 160 gigabyte (160 billion bytes) capacity hard drive, 256 megabytes (256 million bytes) of RAM, and a flat-panel monitor for less than $500 (U.S.). They can also buy a super high performance PC with an Intel® Core™2 Duo processor, 4 gigabytes of RAM , a 500 gigabyte hard drive, and deluxe graphics and sound systems for less than $2,300.

I'd definitely update that part.
Quote from: tdjenn on June 02, 2011, 06:57:28 PM
How do transistors work?
A transistor is a semiconductor device which amplifies current. It has three doped layers, either npn or pnp. Picture a transistor as a small device with three terminals, each called base, collector and emitter. When a voltage of more than the junction voltage (usually about 0.6V) is across the base circuit, the depletion layers are broken down and current can then flow in the collector-emitter circuit. You get the RESULT: emitter-current = base-current + collector-current.



'Bout time my learning of physics CAME into use. Yes, that explains how a transistor is used as an amplifier. Additionally, the transistor can be used as a switch, which is the basis for the functioning of a CPU and the computer PSU.


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