Transistor

“So, I mean, it is just true hardware is massively parallel. Like, you've got tens of billions, hundreds of billions of transistors on your chip, and it takes, like, maybe a hundred clock cycles to get from one side of the chip to the other, and so you can't, l…”

“The analogy I like most for AI is the transistor, like the historical tech, technical analogy. You know, some people figured out like a new, really important scientific discovery. And society, the economy, whatever you want to call it, just got to work. Just d…”

“The price of energy is going to come down, and we're going to replace the way we think of energy as Something where the price jumps around based on whatever local dictator is misbehaving to something that follows the price of the transistor, which is it's cons…”

“If it's true, it could be on the order of the transistor, you know the discovery of electricity, like these kinds of things, like it's up there in terms of the impact that it could have.”

“We've published a peer reviewed journal article in, in December, 2020 on a lot. We've discovered, we believe we've discovered a lot that the power density of these transistors, it's doubling about every 18 months. We plotted all the data. Back to like the 19 n…”

“It was developed at Bell Labs, although it was based on a lot of federal research, but it was developed at Bell Labs while they were looking for better switches. By every definition, it was an incremental innovation, not a quote disruptive.”

“Bell Labs and AT&T were not the major beneficiaries of the discovery of the transistor. Xerox was not the major beneficiary of the discoverer of modern personal computing, right?”