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Modern Printed Circuit Board
1998
Throughout Canada and USA
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This printed circuit board used to transmit a 10 gigabit optical signal contains chips that have over 100,000 transistors. The board has 16 different conductor layers with paths much finer than hairs. Compare this to the earlier circuit board of the 1960s.

Communications have come a long way from shouting into a wooden box to today, it is mind boggling! What will the future bring? Implants that will allow communications everywhere?