Transistor count

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Transistor count is the most common measure of chip complexity.

According to the Moore's Law transistor counts of the integrated circuits grow exponentially.

On virtually all modern CPUs the part that takes most transistors is the cache.


Processor Transistor count Date of introduction Manufacturer
Intel 4004 2300 1971 Intel
Intel 8008 2500 1972 Intel
Intel 8080 4500 1974 Intel
Intel 8088 29 000 1979 Intel
Intel 80286 134 000 1982 Intel
Intel 80386 275 000 1985 Intel
Intel 80486 1 200 000 1989 Intel
Pentium 3 100 000 1993 Intel
AMD K5 4 300 000 1996 AMD
Pentium II 7 500 000 1997 Intel
AMD K6 8 800 000 1997 AMD
Pentium III 9 500 000 1999 Intel
AMD K6-III 21 300 000 1999 AMD
AMD K7 22 000 000 1999 AMD
Pentium 4 42 000 000 2000 Intel
Barton 54 300 000 2003 AMD
AMD K8 105 900 000 2003 AMD
Itanium 2 220 000 000 2003 Intel
Itanium 2 with 9MB cache 592 000 000 2004 Intel
Cell 241 000 000 2006 Sony/IBM/Toshiba
Core 2 Duo 291 000 000 2006 Intel
Core 2 Quad 582 000 000 2006 Intel
G80 681 000 000 2006 NVIDIA
POWER6 789 000 000 2007 IBM
Dual-Core Itanium 2 1 700 000 000 2006 Intel
Quad-Core Itanium Tukwila[1] 2 000 000 000 2008 Intel


FPGA Transistor count Date of introduction Manufacturer
Virtex ~70 000 000 1997 Xilinx
Virtex-E ~200 000 000 1998 Xilinx
Virtex-II ~350 000 000 2000 Xilinx
Virtex-II PRO ~430 000 000 2002 Xilinx
Virtex-4 1 000 000 000 2004 Xilinx
Virtex-5 1 100 000 000[2] 2006 Xilinx


[edit] References

  1. ^ "Itanium Tukwila." AFP. Feb 5, 2008. Retrieved on Feb 5, 2008.
  2. ^ "Taiwan Company UMC Delivers 65nm FPGAs to Xilinx." SDA-ASIA Thursday, 9 November 2006.


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