Rymon Abdulmalek
NT1110
07/03/2014
Mr. Mohamed Khan
Unit 1 Assignment 1.

Processor Model | Year | Transistor Count | Intel 4004 | 1971 | 2,300 Transistors | Intel 80286 | 1982 | 134,000 Transistors | Pentium III | 1999 | 9,500,000 Transistors | Core 2 Duo | 2006 | 291,000,000 Transistors | 8-Core Itanium Poulson | 2012 | 3,100,000,000 Transistors |

In February 2008, Intel has announced the first microchip that contains more than two billion transistors. They called it Tukwila chip. The chip is designed for high-end servers rather than personal computers. Many of the chip´s two billion transistors are used for on-board memory, helping the system process data faster.

The growth of the transistors used in the circuits has nearly doubled every two years. This growth is reasonable because it falls in line with Moore’s law (Founder of Intel). Moore stated that the amount of transistors on a chop would be doubled every 18 months to two years which is surprisingly fast.

According to Moore’s law which says that the amount of the transistors will be doubled every 18 months to 2 years, I would say that the chip that will contain more than 100 Billion transistors will be in 2022. Which they might invent a chip that contains 192,000,000,000 billion transistors.

References:

-The processor model and year when two billion transistors were placed on a single processor chip information was retrieved from http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9060900/Intel_squeezes_2_billion_transistors_onto_new_Itanium_chip
-The table information of the processors model, year and transistors count was retrieved from https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1hRaR4o4z9nITGpAQDDoHRWa3fbmxuteHl6RPEhQ#rows:id=1
-Moore’s law information was retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law