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Hard Fork Presents: The Most Amazing – And Dangerous – Technology In the World
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The Evolution of the Chip Industry
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The first chips were invented in the late 1950s. Today, if you go to an Apple store, for example, and buy a new iPhone, just the primary chip in an iPhone will have around 15 billion transistors on it. Each one of these tiny switches is smaller than the size of a virus. And we produce more of them than we produced any other device in human history.
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