You're trolling me right? You can't really be that thick. If you are in context for engineering then yes, PNP refers to transistors (not wafers, which are composed of millions of PNP junctions).

However, if I talk about network cards in servers then PNP refers to Plug and Play (or Pray), a protocol used to collect information about cards plugged into the ... ok, you successfully trolled me. Update: Comments withdrawn because they were stupid.

As a boredom-cure, I went and found other things that PNP could stand for:
Personal NewsPaper
The Peoples National Party of Jamaica
Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
Polish National Parks
Poisson-Nersnt-Planck Equation (for ions in bulk electrolyte)

Somebody's going to get a real suprise when they search the monastery for PNP :D

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Jeremy
I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.

In reply to Get back under your bridge by jepri
in thread Big Brother Is Watching? by JohnB

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