Posted on 12/21/2021 7:36:35 AM PST by Red Badger
PINGY!...................
Probably will change the math from 1+1=2 always
to
1+1=2 sometimes
Just like liberal think.
Germanium transistors were there at the very beginning of transistor tech, what is old is new again...
Remember the earlier version of doped material technology that eventually morphed into transistors? They’re called selenium rectifiers.....most replaced now by solid state diodes....Still in use today but for much higher current/voltage applications.
“...previously required 160 transistors, now possible with 24 transistors...speed and energy efficiency of the circuits can also be significantly increased...adaptive properties.”
That’s an astonishing breakthrough if it can be commercialized. Smaller, faster, lower power electronics coming.
Someone must have gotten hold of a 2021 model crashed flying saucer.
Reminds me of when the 386 microprocessor first came out, some engineering types and I were discussing the parameters and specs as published.
IIRC, it said it too something like 20 amps of +5VDC power just idling.
But someone said it has like 300k transistors!
Then another said, Yeah, but do they all have to be on at the same time???............
The aliens give us info in little bits at a time.................
I remember removing those selenium rectifiers from old military radio gear and replacing with diodes.
If they went up in smoke the smoke was pretty toxic!
Some were large, weird accordion looking things...
The design improvements of the 386 over the 286 was what inspired me to get hired by Intel.
Hard to believe it was that long ago.
Yep....age, drying out and corrosion usually got them.
I had just bought a 40 MB Hard Drive for my home computer off A Computer Shopper ad, and wondered what I WAS GONNA DO WITH all that space!..................
I remember with rectifier stacks we had something that would smoke and smell badly when overloaded. Was that germanium or what ?
My first hard drive was 15 meg. I had to come by freight,. Took 3 minutes to come up to speed. North Star computer circa 1981.
My first HD was a huge 30 MB Winchester drive. I was thinking the same thing, that I will never need a larger drive. That was before MS windows and photos hogged all the room on a drive.
LOL...good story.
That one chip would heat your house!
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