Although several companies each produce over a billion individually packaged (known as discrete) transistors every year, the vast majority of transistors are now produced in integrated circuits (often shortened to IC, microchips or simply chips), along with diodes, resistors, capacitors and other electronic components, to produce complete electronic circuits. A logic gate consists of up to about twenty transistors whereas an advanced microprocessor, as of 2009, can use as many as 3 billion transistors (MOSFETs). "About 60 million transistors were built in 2002… for [each] man, woman, and child on Earth." COUNT 5
QSN1 How many transistors make up a logic gate? ANS1 up to about twenty transistors QSN2 How many transistors make up a microprocessor? ANS2 as many as 3 billion transistors QSN3 How many transistors were made in 2002? ANS3 60 million transistors were built in 2002… for [each] man, woman, and child QSN4 How many individually packaged transistors are produced each year? ANS4 over a billion QSN5 What are some abbreviations for integrated circuits? ANS5 IC, microchips or simply chips