In the Year 2000, the Average Size of a Transistor

question 8

Multiple Choice

In the year 2000, the average size of a transistor in a microprocessor was 250 nanometers. A human hair has a diameter of 70 microns (micrometers) . How many transistors fit across a human hair?

• A) 280
• B) 28
• C) 2800
• D) 2.8
• E) 0.28

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