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A transistor is a channel with a gate. That gate when closed blocks the passage of the electron and is counted as a zero. When the gate is open, the electronic passes thru and is counted as a one. Those ones and zeros are the basis for binary counting.
* A transistor is a key part of an integrated circuit, which is a set of transistors and their connectors imprinted on a chip.
* Today's processors use 65 nm transistors. In 2000, Intel demonstrated the use of 30 nanometer transistors that could potentially power a 10 GHz processor.
* In 1961, scientists predicted that no transistor on a chip could ever be smaller than 10 millionths of a meter -- and on a modern Intel Pentium chip they are 100 times smaller than that.
* The transistor was invented on in 1947 at Bell Labs.
The history transistors here:
http://www.pbs.org/transistor/
How many transistors in a...?
Check it out: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/microprocessor2.htm
