Simple question: what is the prime component of flash memory chips?
Is it transistor based or something else?
The reason that I ask is I've wondered how is it a chip can contain so many individual gates; circuits on the scale they are integrated? For instance, though an SD card is not a microprocessor, if you compare the # of individual transistors and gates and say the integration level is 45nm. How is it a memory chip can have close to the same number of transistors as an expensive microchip like a CPU and still be viable to manufacture?
If the flash chip can hold 1tb, isn't that like a few billion transistors/ res/ capacitors etc?
Am I understanding this wrong?
Is it transistor based or something else?
The reason that I ask is I've wondered how is it a chip can contain so many individual gates; circuits on the scale they are integrated? For instance, though an SD card is not a microprocessor, if you compare the # of individual transistors and gates and say the integration level is 45nm. How is it a memory chip can have close to the same number of transistors as an expensive microchip like a CPU and still be viable to manufacture?
If the flash chip can hold 1tb, isn't that like a few billion transistors/ res/ capacitors etc?
Am I understanding this wrong?
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