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" From a book talk in Palo Alto for "The Perfectionists";

He pulled out his new iphone and told us that its Apple-designed chipset has 8 billion[!] transistors, and that someone at Intel told him that there are now more transistors in electronics than all the leaves on all the world's trees. Something like 15 quintillion of them! "

― Simon Winchester , The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

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