A standard double-size bed is 4 ft 6 in by 6 ft 3 in (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed#Bed_sizes). A standard cotton sheet is 150 thread count, which means 75 threads per inch of warp and 75 threads per inch of weft (usually) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_count#Thread_count). That gives about 4050 threads by about 5625 threads, omitting the part of the sheet that tucks down around the edge of the mattress, for a total of about 23 million thread crossings.
The Intel Core i7 has about 781 million transistors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_cpus#Core_i7), which is about the number of warp/weft crossings in 34 standard bedsheets, omitting the stuff around the edge of the mattress. I thought maybe ARM chips would be smaller, but http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/arm-introduces-cortex-a8... says the Cortex-A8 has over a billion transistors. (Although there are certainly low-end microcontroller ARMs that are much smaller. And of course the C18 is smaller still; is it "modern"?)
If you're talking about bigger beds and finer sheets, you might get the number down to less than 10 bedsheets per CPU.
But that doesn't mean you could make a diagram of a modern CPU that was only the size of ten to forty bedsheets, with the transistors the size of warp/weft crossings in a bedsheet. If I remember correctly, only a minority of the chip area typically consists of transistors and other active devices.
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A standard double-size bed is 4 ft 6 in by 6 ft 3 in (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed#Bed_sizes). A standard cotton sheet is 150 thread count, which means 75 threads per inch of warp and 75 threads per inch of weft (usually) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_count#Thread_count). That gives about 4050 threads by about 5625 threads, omitting the part of the sheet that tucks down around the edge of the mattress, for a total of about 23 million thread crossings.
The Intel Core i7 has about 781 million transistors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_cpus#Core_i7), which is about the number of warp/weft crossings in 34 standard bedsheets, omitting the stuff around the edge of the mattress. I thought maybe ARM chips would be smaller, but http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/arm-introduces-cortex-a8... says the Cortex-A8 has over a billion transistors. (Although there are certainly low-end microcontroller ARMs that are much smaller. And of course the C18 is smaller still; is it "modern"?)
If you're talking about bigger beds and finer sheets, you might get the number down to less than 10 bedsheets per CPU.
But that doesn't mean you could make a diagram of a modern CPU that was only the size of ten to forty bedsheets, with the transistors the size of warp/weft crossings in a bedsheet. If I remember correctly, only a minority of the chip area typically consists of transistors and other active devices.