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CPU Transistor Count Over Time

Posted by Robert L. Bogue on Monday, 17 May 2010 07:15 | 2 Comments |

I recently had to generate a graph for Moore's Law which plots CPU transistors over time, I thought the end result looked interesting so I wanted to share it:

The line is a bit more varied than most you see because I included AMD, Cyrix, and a few other CPU vendors. I also noticed that some of the data I was using included onboard cache in the transistor count and some didn't. However, I think the graph is interesting because it does show how we've roughly doubled the transistors on processor every 18 months-2 years as Moore predicted. Of course, we've stopped increasing our speed and now we're focused on driving more cores onto the chips – and therefore forcing developers to think about multi-threading their applications.

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Saturday, 14 May 2011 10:13 by Giovanni
It looks GREAT! I would be happy to use it while presenting my research activities (giving you all the credits, obviously). Do you allow me? Could you provide me a higher-resolution image? Thanks in advance gx
Tuesday, 25 Oct 2011 03:12 by By Files
I was surprised to find out that 90% of computers actually have the SpeedStep or Cool & Quiet enabled considering a tiny amount of the market is overclockers who turn it off.

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