Mildly intesting thought

[Topgun]

The athlon FX has 105 million transistors in an area 190 square mm. How big would each transistor be if we scaled it up to a city the size of Birmingham roughly 10km x 10km square?

The size of a park? a football pitch? A house? A room?

Answers on a postcard.

 

[yer_averagejoe]

a dog?

Just a guess.

 

[iCraig]

What the hell type of question is this?

I seriously have no idea, the size of a car or something?

 

[TriedandTested]

Surely it would be the size of Birmingham City if that's what you're scaling it up to....

 

[Stan_Lite]

By doing a rough calculation, I reckon about the size of a box of matches.

Stan

 

[Sparky__H]

The athlon FX has 105 million transistors in an area 190 square mm. How big would each transistor be if we scaled it up to a city the size of Birmingham roughly 10km x 10km square?

The size of a park? a football pitch? A house? A room?

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105,000,000 x Birmingham

 

[killer_uk]

The athlon FX has 105 million transistors in an area 190 square mm. How big would each transistor be if we scaled it up to a city the size of Birmingham roughly 10km x 10km square?

The size of a park? a football pitch? A house? A room?

Answers on a postcard.

The.....size of a postcard?

 

[Memphis]

I feel the thread title was some what exagerated.

 

[Stelly]

The athlon FX has 105 million transistors in an area 190 square mm. How big would each transistor be if we scaled it up to a city the size of Birmingham roughly 10km x 10km square?

The size of a park? a football pitch? A house? A room?

Answers on a postcard.

a postcard on the scale of birmingham or an Athlon Fx??

Stelly

 

[Topgun]

I did say "each transistor".

The answer is slightly smaller than a sheet of A4! Shame we can't get them much smaller because of stupid quantum mechanics.

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

The athlon FX has 105 million transistors in an area 190 square mm. How big would each transistor be if we scaled it up to a city the size of Birmingham roughly 10km x 10km square?

The size of a park? a football pitch? A house? A room?

Answers on a postcard.

I've wrote my answer on a postcard. Its sitting by my monitor. Let me know if I'm right would you?

 

[Six6siX]

Answers on a postcard.

 

["andy"]

i shouldnt realy of laughed as much as i did at that

 

[Stan_Lite]

I did say "each transistor".

The answer is slightly smaller than a sheet of A4! Shame we can't get them much smaller because of stupid quantum mechanics.

Having done the calculation in the cool light of day I realise I made a miscalculation - and so have you

Area of Birmingham = 100 km^2 = 100,000,000 m^2

Area of transistor = Area of Birmingham/number of transistors = 100,000,000 m^2/105,000,000 = 0.952 m^2.

Which is about the same area as a decent sized office desk.

I have too much time on my hands

Stan