> wouldn’t creating OR and AND gates directly reduce the number of transistors No. Gates require varying numbers of transistors to implement in CMOS. This ide

> wouldn’t creating OR and AND gates directly reduce the number of transistors No. Gates require varying numbers of transistors to implement in CMOS. This idea is almost exactly backwards - logic is reduced to nand because nand requires the fewest transistors, not because CMOS can't (or couldn't) make anything else.