Thanks to the wonderful technology we now posess, a single transistor can be constructed out of two thin layers of material (P-doped and N-doped), and can be very, very small - as small as a few atoms, as some researchers have proved not too long ago! Therefore it is easy to put many such small transistors - in layers - on a small chip - the processor. Many of these, in mass production, have these transistors constructed on the micron scale (typically around 15 microns). If a transistor is 15 microns wide, you can put 66 of them in a milimeter, on just one layer, many of which construct a single processor die. It is now typical to have not millions, but billions of transistors on a single CPU!
Think about it: if you can put 66 transistors in a 15x15 micron area, you can fit about 11 108 889 (11 million) of them in a 5x5cm chip - and that's just one layer about a micron thick? Assuming the die itself is 4x4cm and is 3mm thick, each layer is 2 microns thick, and each transistor takes a 21x21 microns of space on a layer --- on such a processor die you would fit 5 442 175 500 - 5 and a half billion transistors.
Of course, these transistors switch very small currents - very small indeed! Your typical, run-of-the-mill discrete transistor can handle much larger currents, and its bulky body is designed to dissipate the heat generated in the process, as nothing else will cool it down. Processors usually have designated cooling methods (like radiators and fans) - without one, the temperature within one rises to "boiling" within seconds.
Like every other chip processors consist of millions of transistors.
Transistor is an tiny electronic device called electronic switch,which is building block of a processor. Processor is a data processing device consists of thousands or millions of transistors. Eg- Intel 8086 microprocessor has around 29000 transistors.
A modern micro processor has atleast 100 million transistors. The Core i7 920 (D0 stepping) has approximately 781 million transistors.
Every computer must have a processor to do the work. To build a micro processor means assembling a large number of transistors, capacitors, and resistors into a small package
millions and more
42 million
134,000
The CPU is housed on a silicon chip that contains millions of switches and circuits. It has millions of Transistors
By the logic gate. Which is just a series of transistors within one package. This was replaced by the processor which is just a group of logic gates. Effectively all microchips and processors are made up of thousands or even millions of transistors... as well as resistors and capacitors.
The size of monitor is 18.4 and Intel Atom processor is smallest processor developed by Intel with help of smallest transistors.
over 3.1 million
Z80 contained 8.500 transistors. See the site I linked below for more information.