This is going to be very interesting because in today’s blog I will show you how much area would be occupied by transistors (electronics switch) if they would be replaced by electro-mechanical switches that are used in circuit boards of your home.
We will take AMD Epyc 2017 microprocessor for our calculation which has around 19.2 billion transistors.
Let’s take the area of conventional switch of measurement as length is 3 cm and breadth is 1 cm. So the surface area would be 3*1= 3 cm^2 ( 3 cm square)
Delhi’s surface area 1484 km^2 . So the ratio will be as follows.
Ratio= (area of conventional switch* total no. of transistors in microprocessor)/ surface area of Delhi.
Note: Here I am changing the surface area of delhi from km^2 (km square) to cm^2 (cm square)
= (3 x 19.2x 10^12 )/ 1484x 10^10
= 3.88 times of Delhi. Means you will require 3.88 times of Delhi surface area to put the no. of transistors used in AMD Epyc 2017 microprocessor.
Isn’t looking great how much excellently electronics is changing the world by improvements on the daily basis.
If we will do further calculation, then also can find out how many AMD Epyc 2017 microprocessors would be required to cover the whole earth if the transistors will be replaced by conventional switches.
Planet Earth surface area (cm^2)= 510x 10^12 cm square.
So only around 900 microprocessors would be required to cover the Earth.
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