On 03/01/2015 15:03, William Sommerwerck wrote:
"polygonum" wrote in message ...

The Haswell-E die is composed of 2.6 billion transistors. You have
to achieve phenomenal component reliability for any of them to
work as they leave the factory, let alone years later!

One might argue that all the transistors are created simultaneously in a
single processing sequence, and that the chip is, technically, a single
component.

One might argue that is the case for the 100-component circuit referred
to in the EE Times article. I simply do not know what goes on in the
making of "an LED plus its associated circuitry". Is it made as one,two
or 101 components?

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Rod