CPUs have billions of transistors in them. Can a single transistor fail and kill the CPU? Or does one dead transistor not affect the CPU? - Quora
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AMD's Zen 3 CPUs can increase transistor count by 20% over Ryzen 3000 thanks to TSMC's 7nm+ node | PCGamesN
TraNOR's DIY Transistor Computer Has a CPU Design Containing 2,495 Discrete Transistors - Hackster.io
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