Small silicon chips may be no more than 1/16” square by 1/30” thick and hold up to tens of thousands of transistors. Large chips, the size of a postage stamp, can contain hundreds of millions of transistors.
| Chip Size |
Number of Transistors per Chip |
| SSI—small-scale integration |
Less than 100 |
| MSI—medium-scale integration |
Between 100 and 3,000 |
| LSI—large-scale integration |
Between 3,000 and 100,000 |
| VLSI—very-large-scale integration |
Between 100,000 and 1 million |
| ULSI—ultra-large-scale integration |
More than 1 million |
