blobrana wrote:
Hum,
technically i suppose they could just have had one transistor on a chip;
In theory - yes.
Practically I never heard of an One-Transistor-Chip.
Even if there are two transistors in one case, they are not called "chips" but e.g. "Darlingtons" or the like.
I don't know how much transistors have to be packed together to call it a "chip" - do you know the number?
blobrana wrote:
The transistor is just a `gate`. It can be open or closed.
IBM just made that action faster....
I like to compare it with a water tap.
At "one end" there is "power" (=water pressure), and if I open the tab at the "second end", the water can pass through and come out at the "third end"...
blobrana wrote:
The chip is just the `housing` and `pattern` of the transistors.
I seem to remember to have seen some transistors for VHF/UHF purposes with a transition frequency within the gigahertz range - I will have to look in my old transistors comparison table...
(so I would say such high frequencies for *Transistors* are not that new)
