NT1110: Intel processors
Intel 4004 1971 2,300
Intel 8008 1972 3,500
Intel 8080 1974 4,500
Intel 8085 1976 6,500
Intel 8086 1978 29,000
Intel 8088 1979 29,000
Intel 80186
Intel 80286 1982 55,000
134,000
Intel 80386 1985 275,000
Intel 80486 1989 1,180,235
Pentium 1993 3,100,000
Pentium Pro 1995 5,500,000
Pentium II 1997 7,500,000
Pentium III 1999 9,500,000
Pentium 4 2000 42,000,000
Itanium 2 McKinley 2002 220,000,000
Itanium 2 Madison 6M 2003 410,000,000
Itanium 2 with 9MB cache 2004 592,000,000
Core 2 Duo
Dual-Core Itanium 2 2006 291,000,000
1,700,000,000
Atom
Core i7 (Quad)
Six-Core Xeon 7400 2008 47,000,000
731,000,000
1,900,000,000
Six-Core Core i7 (Gulftown)
Quad-Core Itanium Tukwila*
8-Core Xeon Nehalem-EX 2010* 1,170,000,000
2,000,000,000
2,300,000,000
Quad-Core + GPU Core i7
Six-Core Core i7/8-Core Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge-E/EP)
10-Core Xeon Westmere-EX 2011 1,160,000,000
2,270,000,000
2,600,000,000
Quad-Core + GPU Core i7
8-Core Itanium Poulson
62-Core Xeon Phi 2012 1,400,000,000
3,100,000,000
5,000,000,000
*The Quad-Core Itanium Tukwila processor released in 2010 was the first single processor to hold two billion transistors.
Processor transistors have roughly double in counts every 18 to 24 months. Each new chip contained roughly two times as much size as its predecessor. Moore’s Law described the growth trend of processor transistor that has continued to this day, and it has become the basis for many industry performance forecasts. In terms of size, cost, density, and speed, the growth in the number of transistors used in integrated circuits is reasonable. Compared to the increase in growth over the last decades to now, the growth of the number of transistors used in integrated circuits doesn’t look surprisingly fast or slow at all. Accordingly to Moore’s Law, one can predict that somewhere between 2018 and 2020 100 billion (or even a trillion) transistors may fit on a single chip. Although this trend has continued for
Intel 8008 1972 3,500
Intel 8080 1974 4,500
Intel 8085 1976 6,500
Intel 8086 1978 29,000
Intel 8088 1979 29,000
Intel 80186
Intel 80286 1982 55,000
134,000
Intel 80386 1985 275,000
Intel 80486 1989 1,180,235
Pentium 1993 3,100,000
Pentium Pro 1995 5,500,000
Pentium II 1997 7,500,000
Pentium III 1999 9,500,000
Pentium 4 2000 42,000,000
Itanium 2 McKinley 2002 220,000,000
Itanium 2 Madison 6M 2003 410,000,000
Itanium 2 with 9MB cache 2004 592,000,000
Core 2 Duo
Dual-Core Itanium 2 2006 291,000,000
1,700,000,000
Atom
Core i7 (Quad)
Six-Core Xeon 7400 2008 47,000,000
731,000,000
1,900,000,000
Six-Core Core i7 (Gulftown)
Quad-Core Itanium Tukwila*
8-Core Xeon Nehalem-EX 2010* 1,170,000,000
2,000,000,000
2,300,000,000
Quad-Core + GPU Core i7
Six-Core Core i7/8-Core Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge-E/EP)
10-Core Xeon Westmere-EX 2011 1,160,000,000
2,270,000,000
2,600,000,000
Quad-Core + GPU Core i7
8-Core Itanium Poulson
62-Core Xeon Phi 2012 1,400,000,000
3,100,000,000
5,000,000,000
*The Quad-Core Itanium Tukwila processor released in 2010 was the first single processor to hold two billion transistors.
Processor transistors have roughly double in counts every 18 to 24 months. Each new chip contained roughly two times as much size as its predecessor. Moore’s Law described the growth trend of processor transistor that has continued to this day, and it has become the basis for many industry performance forecasts. In terms of size, cost, density, and speed, the growth in the number of transistors used in integrated circuits is reasonable. Compared to the increase in growth over the last decades to now, the growth of the number of transistors used in integrated circuits doesn’t look surprisingly fast or slow at all. Accordingly to Moore’s Law, one can predict that somewhere between 2018 and 2020 100 billion (or even a trillion) transistors may fit on a single chip. Although this trend has continued for
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