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Question: How many transistors are inside the original Nintendo system?
The original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console contains two custom Nintendo-made chips: The Ricoh 2A03 CPU and the Nintendo Picture Processing Unit (PPU). The CPU contains approximately 2,500 transistors, while the PPU contains approximately 1,500 transistors. Combined, the two chips contain approximately 4,000 transistors.
The original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is powered by a Ricoh 2A03 chip for its central processing unit (CPU) and a Picture Processing Unit (PPU) for its graphics processing. The Ricoh 2A03 CPU integrates approximately 4,515 transistors, while information about the exact number of transistors in the PPU is not readily available. However, given the complexity of the PPU, it is likely that this chip integrates several thousand additional transistors, leading to a total count of at least several thousand transistors inside the NES.
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