Integrated Circuit Technology (U1AS1) Processor Model | Transistor Count | Year | Intel 4004 | 2,300 | 1971 | Intel 8008 | 3,500 | 1972 | Intel 8080 | 4,500 | 1974 | Intel 8086 | 29,000 | 1978 | Intel 286 | 134,000 | 1982 | Intel 386 | 275,000 | 1985 | Intel 486 | 1,200,000 | 1989 | Intel Pentium | 3,100,000 | 1993 | Intel Pentium Pro | 5,500,000 | 1995 | Intel Pentium II | 7,500,000 | 1997 | Intel Celeron | 7,500,000 | 1998 | Intel Pentium III | 9,500,000 | 1999 | Intel Pentium 4 | 42,000,000 | 2000 | Intel Xeon | 42,000,000 | 2001 | Intel Pentium M | 55,000,000 | 2003 | Intel Core 2 Duo | 291,000,000 | 2006 | Intel Core i7 (quad) | 731,000,000 | 2008 | Intel Quad-Core Itanium | 2,000,000,000 | 2010 | Intel Six-Core i7/8 | 2,270,000,000 | 2011 | Intel 8-Core Itanium | 3,100,000,000 | 2012 | The processor chip that has two billion transistors placed in it was the Intel Quad-Core Itanium, which was released in 2010. Source: 1. http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/corporate-information/museum-transistors-to-transformations-brochure.pdf 2. http://www.wagnercg.com/portals/0/funstuff/AHistoryofMicroProcessorTransistorCount.pdf The growth of the transistor is reasonable because computer technology grew and it will keep growing, which Moore’s law proves that the growth will rise even more in the future. The growth did look surprisingly fast as every couple of years they will double from the previous transistor count. I predict that in the year 2021 a single chip could be able to hold up to 100 billion transistors. For up to one trillion in a single chip, I believe it can be achieved by the year 2030.