Chapter 1: Nick Nicholls, Albert Chu

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Transistor Count

According to the text, since 1971 the number of transistors on a chip has increased from 2,300 to 167 million in 2006. By 2011, the transistor count had further increased to 2.6 billion, a 1,130,434x increase from 1971. 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.

Increase

Evolution of Intel Processors

Table 1.1: Evolution of Intel Processors
From Procs Specifications New Features
2000 Pentium IV 1.4-3GHz, 55M transistors hyper-pipelining, SMT
2006 Xeon 64-bit, 2GHz, 167M transistors, 4MB L2 cache on chip Dual core, virtualization support
2007
2008
2009
2010 Core i3 2.93-3.33 GHz, 64 KB L1 cache, 512 KB L2 cache, 4MB L3 cache
2011

Cores

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count