The Ouya works, it’s here, and it’s heading your way

Re:The Ouya works, it’s here, and it’s heading your way by abecedarius on Friday March 29, 2013 @11:35PM (#5464239)

That doesn't sound right: 22 nm * 316 = 69 microns, giving 69^2 == ~4800 square microns; a transistor is larger than the feature size, and don't wires take the majority of the area? (Still, that's well under a square millimeter.)

So we haven't quite reached the day Eric Drexler hinted at with "so-called microcomputers still visible to the naked eye".

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Re:The Ouya works, it’s here, and it’s heading your way by ChuckMcM on Friday March 29, 2013 @11:49PM (#5464287)

Nice catch, in my haste I was dividing and should have been multiplying. Typical transistor size is 4x feature size. So 316 * 2 * .022 ~ 14 microns and squared its ~ 200 square microns.

That said, we are still talking about an incrementally small addition to a chip.

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Re:The Ouya works, it’s here, and it’s heading your way by abecedarius on Saturday March 30, 2013 @11:05AM (#5465590)

Oops, I misplaced a decimal myself. That's amazingly small (still without wiring overhead, of course).

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