[Danko]’s minimal circuit is about as small as possible for the DIP version of the venerable 555 chip. The BOM is stripped to the bone: just the chip, three resistors, a capacitor, and an LED.

Scientists in China have developed the world’s most complex two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor microprocessor, which ...

predicted in 1965 that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit chip would double every two years 1. The semiconductor industry has maintained this rate of transistor dimension scaling ...