Example sentences for: transistors

How can you use “transistors” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The more transistors you can pack on a circuit, the more powerful the circuit becomes.)

  • In an article in the journal Science , an Intel scientist named Paul A. Packan reports that as silicon chips continue to shrink, their manufacturers are running up against stubborn physical limits for the first time--already, the smallest transistors have insulating layers only a few atoms thick.

  • In 1965, Moore observed that since the invention of integrated circuits (or microchips) in 1959, the number of transistors that a chip of constant surface area could hold had doubled once every year or two.

  • To adhere to Moore's Law, within five years engineers would have to create transistors that are only a few dozen atoms across--a feat that might be impossible, since atomic movement is so difficult to predict.

  • (Integrated circuits are the basic units of computer logic and memory, and transistors are the "on-off" switches that allow digital information to be transmitted, processed, and stored.


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