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==Transistor Count==
==Transistor Count==
===Increase===
===Increase===
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====More====
==Sources==
==Sources==
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Revision as of 18:56, 30 January 2012

According to the text, since 1971 the number of transistors on a chip has increased from 2,300 to 167 million in 2006. Since 2006, this number has further increased to about 2 billion. This is an increase of approximately 6 orders of magnitude. the clock frequency has also continued to rise, if a bit slower since 2006. At the time, it was around 2.4ghz, a 3k multiple of the speed in 1971 of 750khz. Now the high end clock speed of a processor is in the 3.3ghz range.


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