Vacuum tubes and transistors can function as switches in computer circuits. However, the number of switches in modern computers is so big that when using conventional transistors they had giant sizes. Therefore, hundreds of thousands of transistors and other components together with the necessary connections placed on a tiny chip of silicon. Silicon chips (integrated circuits) have revolutionized the electronics with the power of millions of electronic components are embodied in a cheap desktop computer systems.
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