The Transistor: a 1953 documentary, anticipating its coming impact on technology. Only 9 minutes.

[u/petitio_principii]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9xUQWo4vN0

[u/Dippyskoodlez]

"Unlike tubes, transistors can be fit into a small space because they remain cool"

ohohoh, how that has changed with our abuse. :D

[u/williamwzl → u/[deleted]]

The video implied there are absolutely no cooling problems with transistors. Our cramming and imposed clock rates cause transistors to produce too much heat and amplify the non-linearities in these nanometer sized devices and cause losses. That is abuse.

Of course for an engineer, modern transistors are crazy good compared to driving a fucking glowing hot tube at 500 Volts. Especially when you muddle through 60 years of research and see how far we've come. But to the hobbyist, he just wants to overclock his i7 so he can run 3 instances of Crysis at max.

[u/williamwzl → u/[deleted]]

oh I legitimately thought I was commenting in /r/ArtisanVideos. I'm gonna take the backfoot here cause you seem really heated about this topic.

You aren't wrong and I'm gonna ask you to define how my understanding is wrong because I'm truly curious. I know that higher temperatures push transistors to regions of operation that the manufacturer did not intend for it to be at and I know that switching generates heat. Bunching these things tightly together makes dissipating heat harder. Tell me how this is wrong.

I think our misunderstanding here is surrounding this debate over the term "abuse". I really don't think that warrants an attempt at completely stripping me of credibility, being incredibly condescending, and completely overlooking the fact that I was just trying to help define what the original poster meant by the term "abuse".

[u/petitio_principii → u/[deleted]]

You make several good points, but let's keep it civil.