I shrunk down into an M5 chip

Shrinking to transistor size

They shrunk down to the size of a transistor. The video visualizes the incredible scale reduction of computer chips over decades, from room-sized computers to pocket-sized devices with billions of microscopic components.

• 📏 Early transistors in 1948 were the size of a person, while today's 3nm transistors are smaller than a virus.
• 🍌 A banana is used as a scale reference when the creator shrinks to the size of a keyboard key.
• 🧬 At 20 nanometers, air molecules are too large to breathe and visible light wavelengths are as tall as the creator.
• 🌍 If a modern transistor were the size of a Prius, an iPhone containing them would be Earth-sized.
• ⚛️ Photolithography uses light projected through microscopes to etch patterns onto atoms, enabling transistor manufacturing.

A miniature person in a red shirt is pushing a glowing M5 chip onto a laptop keyboard.