Today, the world celebrates 60 years of the birth of transistors

Yesterday (December 16), the world celebrated the 60th anniversary of the birth of transistors, the foundation of today's digital world. Invented by Bell Labs and considered one of the most important inventions of the 20th century, transistors are found in many consumer electronics devices and are the basic components used to build on computer chips, or " brains " of personal computers.

Intel, the world's largest computer chip manufacturer, recently introduced its next-generation four-core processors on its 45nm process technology. Called the largest transistor breakthrough in the last 40 years by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, these processors are the first processors to use the High-k metal gate formula. on Intel's Hafnium for hundreds of millions of transistors inside these processors. Launched on November 12, 2007 worldwide (officially introduced in Vietnam on December 4, 2007), this latest breakthrough allows servers, desktops and computers. Laptops can now become even smaller, faster, more eye-catching designs and even more energy-efficient and eliminate lead that is not environmentally friendly and in 2008. will remove both halogen substances.

Directed by Moore's Law

(Photo: VnMedia) On April 19, 1965, Electronics Magazine published an article by Mr. Moore in which he published a prediction about the semiconductor industry, an industry that became an current legend. Known as Moore's Law, his prediction is that the number of transistors on a chip will double every two years, allowing the widespread creation of technology all over the world. gender, and has now become a platform for rapid technological change in the world.

Moore's Law not only predicts that computing technology will improve in value but at the same time reduce the actual costs involved. The price of a transistor in Intel's latest family of chips is equal to 1 million of the average price of a transistor in 1968. If the price of a car is also reduced at this rate, a new car can now be will only cost about 1 cent.

With your transistors turned off and turned on for more than 1 trillion times a second, the Intel Core Duo processor can complete nearly a billion calculations in a flash. And the average power of an Intel Core Duo processor is 1.1 watts lower, much lower than the familiar home electrical appliances.

Smaller and faster chips based on Intel's technological advances have benefited users through allowing high-performance desktops and laptops more, longer battery life, more eye-catching design, quieter operation and higher power saving performance. If engineers continue Moore's Law and succeed in further reducing the size of transistors while improving processing speed, the world can hope for new breakthroughs and applications. Amazingly like translating languages ​​and real-time face recognition, as well as allowing cars to receive voice commands to go to a certain location.