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transistor layer
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Billions of transistors built up through hundreds of rounds of coating, printing, etching and doping. It takes about three months.
First appearedc. 1959 (67 yrs ago)
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Billions of transistors built up through hundreds of rounds of coating, printing, etching and doping. It takes about three months.
From the big bang to transistor layer
The most direct chain from the start of the universe, following what things are made from and, for living things, what they evolved from. Each step shows when it first appeared.
big bang13.8 bn yrs ago
Hhydrogen13.8 bn yrs ago
water4.4 bn yrs ago
ultrapure waterdate unknown
transistor layerc. 1959