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Plot of
transistor counts against dates of introduction. The curve shows counts doubling every two years.
Transistor count is the most common measure of integrated circuit complexity. According to Moore's Law, the transistor count of the integrated circuits grow exponentially. On most modern microprocessors, the majority of transistors are contained in caches.
[edit] Transistor count
[edit] Microprocessors
| Processor |
Transistor count |
Date of introduction |
Manufacturer |
| Intel 4004 |
2,300 |
1971 |
Intel |
| Intel 8008 |
2,500 |
1972 |
Intel |
| Intel 8080 |
4,500 |
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 |
| Atom |
47,000,000 |
2008 |
Intel |
| Barton |
54,300,000 |
2003 |
AMD |
| AMD K8 |
105,900,000 |
2003 |
AMD |
| Itanium 2 |
220,000,000 |
2003 |
Intel |
| Cell |
250,000,000 |
2006 |
Sony/IBM/Toshiba |
| Core 2 Duo |
291,000,000 |
2006 |
Intel |
| AMD K10 |
463,000,000[1] |
2007 |
AMD |
| Core 2 Quad |
582,000,000 |
2006 |
Intel |
| Itanium 2 with 9MB cache |
592,000,000 |
2004 |
Intel |
| Core i7 (Quad) |
731,000,000 |
2008 |
Intel |
| POWER6 |
789,000,000 |
2007 |
IBM |
| Dual-Core Itanium 2 |
1,700,000,000[2] |
2006 |
Intel |
| Quad-Core Itanium Tukwila |
2,000,000,000[3] |
2008 |
Intel |
| 8-Core Xeon Nehalem-EX |
2,300,000,000[4] |
2009 |
Intel |
| Processor |
Transistor count |
Date of introduction |
Manufacturer |
| G80 |
681,000,000 |
2006 |
NVIDIA |
| RV770 |
956,000,000[5] |
2008 |
AMD |
| GT200 |
1,400,000,000[6] |
2008 |
NVIDIA |
| 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[7] |
2006 |
Xilinx |
| Stratix IV |
2,500,000,000[8] |
2008 |
Altera |
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