Even with devices this small, we couldn't make 13 sextillion of them in 60 years.
A fun fact on the wikipedia page for the metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor:
it is the most frequently manufactured device in history, and the total number manufactured from 1960-2018 is 13 sextillion.
That's 13,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
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Even with devices this small, we couldn't make 13 sextillion of them in 60 years.
In 2017, it was estimated a billion are made every year.
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsE7RHJUcAA5JTF.png)
(from Ken Shirriff's blog)
https://t.co/mz5PQDjYqF
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about 25. Not many, but it's a very simple chip.
There's no specs on that specific chip that I can see, but the Tegra Xavier (Which is effectively the Tegra X3) has 7 billion transistors.
So even if the X1 only has 1/7th as many transistors as the Xavier, that's still 70 quadrillion transistors.
That's a rounding error. The CPU/GPU chip is only a small percentage of the number of transistors in the Switch.
One way to make LCDs is with Thin-film transistors, where there's actually a transparent MOSFET layer which each individual subpixel has a transistors.
So it's not the screen.
This is where you build a MOSFET where instead of acting like a switch, the gate electrically isolated, and doesn't easily change.
Basically you can run a current through the mosfet, and based on if it was charged or not, it'll have a different threshold voltage.
And it's taken over the world in the 41 years since it was invented.
You need at minimum one MOSFET for every single bit you store, plus a bunch more to handle addressing and writing and erasing and controlling.
That's not a lot. Your computer or phone probably has at least 4 times that much.
And Nintendo has sold 70 million of those.
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So I got out some CF cards and noticed something odd about this one. Do you see the weirdness?
How the fuck is a CF card "USB Enabled"?
So CF cards are a weird beast that act as either a PCMCIA card or an ATA/IDE card depending on a mode pin.
They're definitely not USB.
And it's not like that weird SanDisk card I have which you can fold in half and plug it in as a USB device.
It turns out the reason for "USB Enabled" is because it's a Lexar drive from the jumpSHOT era.
This is a normal CF card in most cases, you can use it in normal CF card readers and such
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EocVeh9VEAAoJvu.jpg)
How the fuck is a CF card "USB Enabled"?
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EocVj--VQAAfrWB.jpg)
So CF cards are a weird beast that act as either a PCMCIA card or an ATA/IDE card depending on a mode pin.
They're definitely not USB.
And it's not like that weird SanDisk card I have which you can fold in half and plug it in as a USB device.
Flip it over, bend it in half, and now you can plug your SD card right into a USB port pic.twitter.com/jeBefP2xU1
— foone (@Foone) May 2, 2020
It turns out the reason for "USB Enabled" is because it's a Lexar drive from the jumpSHOT era.
This is a normal CF card in most cases, you can use it in normal CF card readers and such
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