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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Moore's Law
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Date: 9 Feb 90 04:49:00 GMT
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Re:  10^15 transistors produced in 1990.

A more interesting number would be the number of working transistors
thrown away.  We probably throw away a trillion working transistors
every year, just because a few thousand or hundred thousand
transistors or connection lines are broken.

What a waste.  I think we should use lasers to cut out & recycle
these working transistors.  8-)


Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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