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ENIAC - the first computer

ENIAC – the first computer – was 80 feet long, 8.5 feet high and several feet wide. It incorporated 18,000 vacuum tubes.

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Technology scaling factor

Technology nodex always shrinks by a factor of 0.7 per generation so that each subsequent technology has cell area that is half of that in present technology node.

For instance, you will find technology nodes as 180 um 90 um, 65 um, 45 um, 32 um, 22 um and so on..

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