>@benedictevans: The entire Sun render farm for Toy Story (1995) had (v roughly) 1bn CPU transistors.

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>Apple’s A8 SoC (iPhone 6): 2bn

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>Unfair, but relevant

>@benedictevans: That is, on a basic measure, a 2 year old phone now has more computing power than was used to render Toy Story. Power of compound growth

>@benedictevans: Image: the Pixar render farm in 1995. Half of an iPhone.

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