AI engineering glossary · Computing foundations
What is transistor?
Transistor: A tiny electronic switch that can turn current on or off or amplify a signal, and is the basic building block of modern processors and memory. Billions of them are packed on one chip to form logic gates.
Transistor: an example
A modern CPU contains billions of transistors acting as switches to represent 0s and 1s.
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Where you learn it
Transistor is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.