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wang_li 34 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates

A nand gate takes 2 transistors. So 554,000 transistors if this were manufactured in a physical device.

By way of comparison, the Intel i386 had 275,000 transistors.

matja 34 days ago | [–]

Most of the gate budget here is on SRAM used for system memory and video memory, so not exactly comparable to a i386 which had neither on-die.

ohazi 34 days ago | | [–]

4 transistors for a two-input NAND gate in CMOS.

jhallenworld 34 days ago | | [–]

1 transistor for DTL... certainly CMOS is more relevant.

HarHarVeryFunny 34 days ago | [–]

ARM1 was only 25,000 transistors.

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