Intel 4004, cap off

[Intel Museum]

Intel 4004 [Intel Museum]

Intel 4004 [Intel Museum]

Intel 8080

[Intel]

Intel 8088/8086

MC68010

[CPU World]

Pentium Pro

5.5 million

transistors

[Intel]

Intel Itanium 2

[2004, Intel]

Core i5/Core i7 processor [Intel]

Vybrid VF7xx Dual Heterogeneous Core Solution

with Dual XGA Display and GPU [© Freescale, Inc. 2004 – 2012]

Evolution over time

• Manufacturing:

25.4 mm (1”) wafer → 450 mm (18”) wafer

• Transistor count:

2,300 (Intel 4004) → 68,000 (Motorola 68000)

→ 5,000,000,000 (Intel 62-Core Xeon Phi)

→ 7,080,000,000 (Nvidia GK110 Kepler)

• Circuit line width:

10 microns or 10,000 nm (Intel 4004)

→ 45 or 32 or 22 nanometers