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As a matter of fact, it's as fast as the fabled Moore's Law that defined the amount of transistors they can put on a chip.
For example, a computer's main memory is made of transistors that switch between either high or low voltage levels, such as 5 volts and 0 volts.
That reading is done by the computer’s processor, which uses the transistors’ states to control other computer devices according to software instructions.
In microelectronics, they use something called lithography to do the same sort of thing, to make the transistors and integrated circuits and build up a structure several times.
Combining different semiconductors in the right way allows us to make transistors on a tiny scale, millions on a single computer chip.
That's usually made up of six interlocked transistors which don't need refreshing.
These have no moving parts, instead using floating gate transistors that store bits by trapping or removing electrical charges within their specially designed internal structures.
Repeatedly writing to floating gate transistors corrodes them, eventually rendering them useless.
But this idea, that our present and our future are mutually exclusive, that to fulfill our potential for doing we have to surrender our profound potential for being, that the number of transistors on a circuit can be doubled and doubled, but our capacity for compassion and humanity and serenity and love is somehow limited is a false and suffocating choice.
And we take it for granted now, that each of these machines has billions of transistors, doing billions of cycles per second without failing.
So here's the specifications, just as if you were to make up a spec sheet for it: 170 quadrillion transistors, 55 trillion links, emails running at two megahertz itself, 31 kilohertz text messaging, 246 exabyte storage.
A quadrillion transistors is almost the same as the number of neurons in your brain.
Now, what's happening is that as transistors are getting smaller and smaller and smaller, they no longer behave like this.
Now, this is starting to happen in transistors.
Now, in a few years time, by 2015, we will shrink transistors so much.
Transistors are getting smaller to allow this to happen, and technology has really benefitted from that.
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.
And these transistors are behaving essentially just like ion channels behave in the brain.
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.
But by the teen years, the features of transistors will be a few atoms in width, and we won't be able to shrink them any more.
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.
The most advanced transistors today are at 65 nanometers, and we've seen, and I've had the pleasure to invest in, companies that give me great confidence that we'll extend Moore's Law all the way down to roughly the 10 nanometer scale.
You can make both p- and n-type semiconductors, which means you can make transistors out of them.
We went to the fourth paradigm, transistors, and finally integrated circuits.
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.
The way that silicon behaves, the fact that you can build transistors, is a purely quantum phenomenon.
So without that curiosity-driven understanding of the structure of atoms, which led to this rather esoteric theory, quantum mechanics, then we wouldn't have transistors, we wouldn't have silicon chips, we wouldn't have pretty much the basis of our modern economy.
And more than that, it's a confection of different ideas, the idea of plastic, the idea of a laser, the idea of transistors.
The rule that the speed and number of transistors double every 18 months is now more than matched by the expectation that total bandwidth of the world’s communication systems will triple every 12 months.
This has been true of all of the transformative discoveries and innovations – DNA, transistors, lasers, the Internet, and so on.