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The devices that computers use are what's called a transistor.

And the cost of a transistor cycle, which is a measure of the price performance of electronics, comes down about every year.

Unlike Gertrude Stein's roses, it's not the case that a transistor is a transistor.

The author of this paper explained that the crystal converts the vibration of ultrasound emitted outside the human body into electricity to drive a tiny transistor, which is directly attached to a nerve or muscle fibers, inside the device.

We went to the fourth paradigm, transistors, and finally integrated circuits.

So, since the transistor is so simple, you can put lots of them together.

Now, the explorers of the world of the atom did not intend to invent the transistor.

Polymeric transistors have been developed that can be used in rather simple integrated circuits.

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A transistor is nothing more than a wall switch.

The way that silicon behaves, the fact that you can build transistors, is a purely quantum phenomenon.

After Von Neumann, we have the Pentium, where the billionth transistor is as reliable as the first one.

And that means that a transistor corresponds to about 12 ion channels in parallel.

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But what's happening now is that in 2015, the transistor is going to become so small, that it corresponds to only one electron at a time can flow through that channel, and that corresponds to a single ion channel.

Moore's Law was just the last part of that, where we were shrinking transistors on an integrated circuit, but we had electro mechanical calculators, relay based computers that cracked the German Enigma Code, vacuum tubes in the 1950s predicted the election of Eisenhower, discreet transistors used in the first space flights and then Moore's Law.

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Processor performance on Intel chips, the average price of a transistor 1968, you could buy one transistor for a dollar.

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Look at this graph here.You could buy one transistor for a dollar in 1968.

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A quadrillion transistors is almost the same as the number of neurons in your brain.

Whole different paradigm transistors came out of the woodwork.

So the second layer of simplicity was the transistor in the Internet.

Now, this is starting to happen in transistors.

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And these transistors are behaving essentially just like ion channels behave in the brain.

So now the neurons are represented by little nodes or circuits on the chip, and the connections among the neurons are represented, actually modeled by transistors.

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They're faster, so you've got exponential growth in the speed of transistors, so the cost of a cycle of one transistor has been coming down with a halving rate of 1.1 years.

And the reason why that's happening is that, right now, in 2007 the technology that we are using a transistor is big enough that several electrons can flow through the channel simultaneously, side by side.

Now, in a few years time, by 2015, we will shrink transistors so much.

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Japan did not make transistors then and Emperors did not bow.

MIT just has a new radio chip that uses far less power than our chips.

In our eyes, the lens is clear, but in this child, the lens has become opaque, and therefore he can't see the world.

So you begin to think of a shoe as a chip with heels, and a car as a chip with wheels, because basically most of the cost of manufacturing cars is the embedded intelligence and electronics in it, and not the materials.

And a current integrated circuit might have in each one of these chips something like a billion transistors, all of which have to work perfectly every time.