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Just how many transistors are there in the world? Gordon Moore, co-founder of the Intel Corporation, figures it out.

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We make on the order of 1017 transistors. That's a 1 followed by seventeen 0s [100,000,000,000,000,000]. This is a number that's hard to comprehend. One of the things that I like to compare it to is the estimate of the number of ants on earth made by Professor E.O. Wilson of Harvard[. That estimate] is about 1016 to 1017. So we make about one transistor for every ant on earth these days—every year. [Laughs.]

    
         

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