Before the introduction of integrated circuit chips, the technology was based on discrete-component individual transistors.

In digital radiography systems it is the size of the individual thermo-luminescent transistors.

Current technology has moved far past this mark and today's microprocessors have many millions of gates and billions of individual transistors.

However, bistables based on individual transistors are sometimes used and valves were used for the purpose many years ago.

'You mean the individual transistors of all the processing devices attached to the global networks themselves become the processor?'

When chips were larger, probes could be delicately positioned to test individual transistors for errors.

Intel has developed and licensed its own debugging method, which uses infrared light to test individual transistors.

The group said it had made chips with individual transistors 0.35 micron in width.

The mean value of collector voltage will be somewhere between 2V and 3.5V depending upon the current gain of the individual transistor used.

As individual transistors get smaller, they take less electrical power to switch and, in general, can switch on and off more quickly.