If there are billions of transistors in a CPU, there is no chance that somebody designed every single one of them manually. Is their layout calculated or something?

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If there are billions of transistors in a CPU, there is no chance that somebody designed every single one of them manually. Is their layout calculated or something?

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Answer 1

Yea

They are all essentially the exact same thing laid out in the same pattern.

So you just have to design one and then essentially copy-paste, copy-paste, copy-paste over and over. In a digital layout, since most computer parts are all built and assembled by computers nowadays anyways