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The athlon FX has 105 million transistors in an area 190 square mm. How big would each transistor be if we scaled it up to a city the size of Birmingham roughly 10km x 10km square?

The size of a park? a football pitch? A house? A room?

Answers on a postcard.
 
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Topgun said:
The athlon FX has 105 million transistors in an area 190 square mm. How big would each transistor be if we scaled it up to a city the size of Birmingham roughly 10km x 10km square?

The size of a park? a football pitch? A house? A room?

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105,000,000 x Birmingham
 
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Topgun said:
The athlon FX has 105 million transistors in an area 190 square mm. How big would each transistor be if we scaled it up to a city the size of Birmingham roughly 10km x 10km square?

The size of a park? a football pitch? A house? A room?

Answers on a postcard.

The.....size of a postcard? :p
 
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Topgun said:
The athlon FX has 105 million transistors in an area 190 square mm. How big would each transistor be if we scaled it up to a city the size of Birmingham roughly 10km x 10km square?

The size of a park? a football pitch? A house? A room?

Answers on a postcard.

a postcard on the scale of birmingham or an Athlon Fx??

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I did say "each transistor".

The answer is slightly smaller than a sheet of A4! Shame we can't get them much smaller because of stupid quantum mechanics.
 
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Topgun said:
The athlon FX has 105 million transistors in an area 190 square mm. How big would each transistor be if we scaled it up to a city the size of Birmingham roughly 10km x 10km square?

The size of a park? a football pitch? A house? A room?

Answers on a postcard.

I've wrote my answer on a postcard. Its sitting by my monitor. Let me know if I'm right would you?
 
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Topgun said:
Answers on a postcard.

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Topgun said:
I did say "each transistor".

The answer is slightly smaller than a sheet of A4! Shame we can't get them much smaller because of stupid quantum mechanics.

Having done the calculation in the cool light of day I realise I made a miscalculation - and so have you :p

Area of Birmingham = 100 km^2 = 100,000,000 m^2

Area of transistor = Area of Birmingham/number of transistors = 100,000,000 m^2/105,000,000 = 0.952 m^2.

Which is about the same area as a decent sized office desk.

I have too much time on my hands :o

Stan :)
 
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