| The Smallinator...Haf learns about a big change in small from Intel. A transistor is the fundamental building block of all modern electronics...so how can we make them smaller? Artist Geoff McFetridge takes a friendly frolic through the scientific and engineering wonders of the ever shrinking, ever better transistor that Intel is now creating that measures 45 nanometers. 400 of them can fit inside the size of a human red blood cell. |
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Smaller is a Big Thing
A cute video explaining Intel's tiny transistor:
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Wow major props to intel. That was a really awsome little video. I loved the intro. It was full of information and fun to watch. Good post.
ReplyDeleteThis is a perfect example of how science art and society are affected. Faster processors help society with faster computers and it was science that built them and the artistic idea that help unravel such an achievement.
ReplyDeleteThat's absolutely amazing that a human can create a technology that small. Small enough to fit into a human red blood cell? I would lose it trying to create it!
ReplyDeleteIntel Is a great company with great ideas. How someone can come up with making a transistor that small is astonishing! I agree with Kristen I would lose it In a second, I lose my keys all the time and there like 150 times the size.
ReplyDeleteBy comparison the ENIAC - the worlds first modern computer - had about 18000 tubes (used before the transistor was invented) and it filled a large room. Do some comparison research - it will blow your mind.
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting to know because a human blood cell is very small and 1/400 of a blood cell is the smallest thing i can ever imagine, and if transistors can be that small then there is no limit to how small camera or computers can even be. This is great enws to know for the future of technology and computers. It will be infinitely small!
ReplyDeleteAmazing that a transistor - the building block for computer processors is 1/400th the size of a human blood cell. How is it possible to work with something that small? Anyway I don't happen to agree with smaller necessarily being better. I upgraded my cell phone recently, because my old one was shot and I was due for a new contract. It works great but my only complaint would be that it is too small, and very easy to misplace. I sometimes look for it for five minutes and than realize after a second time of patting myself down that it's in my pocket.
ReplyDeleteIntel always comes up with new and exciting discoveries. With technology now and days, anything can be done if someone has the right equipment and puts their mind to it. I like the video on how they can make things even smaller. Great information!
ReplyDeleteTo know that you can fit 400 on a red blood cell indicates that they are infinite possibilities. Does this mean that soon we will have transistors injected into us to help with our normal body functions? Maybe they can be used to prevent cells from over multiplying in places that it is not and be used to treat cancer. Definitely a great video!
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