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> It’s been 65 years since the invention of the integrated circuit, but we still have billions of these guys around, whirring and clicking and breaking. It’s on
by hcarvalhoalves 12y ago
> It’s been 65 years since the invention of the integrated circuit, but we still have billions of these guys around, whirring and clicking and breaking. It’s only now that we are on the cusp of the switch to fully solid-state computing.
Am I missing something, or should it read "hard disk" rather than "integrated circuit" here?
- sp332 12y ago"These guys" refers to the hard drive in the picture just above that paragraph. It means: even though integrated circuits are old, we're just getting around to solid-state storage.
- jobu 12y agoHe's referring to the picture of the hard drive above that line when he says "these guys". It took me a couple reads through that sentence to grasp the meaning = "Why are we still using spinning metal contraptions to store data 65 years after the invention of the integrated circuit?"