Unit 1 Assignment 1

Processor Transistor count Year
Intel 4004 2,300 1971
Intel 8008 2,500 1972
Intel 8080 4,500 1974
Intel 8085 8,500 1976
Intel 8086 29,000 1978
Intel 8088 29,000 1979
Intel 80186 55,000 1982
Intel 80286 134,000 1982
Intel 80386 275,000 1985
Intel 80486 1,200,000 1989
Pentium 3,100,000 1993
Pentium Pro 5,500,000 1995
Pentium II 7,500,000 1997
Pentium III 9,500,000 1999
Pentium 4 42,000,000 2000
Intel Itanium 2 220,000,000 2003
Intel Itanium 2 Madison 6m 410,000,000 2003
Intel Itanium 2 with 9MB Cache 592,000,000 2004
Core 2 Duo 291,000,000 2006
Core i7 731,000,000 2008
Quad- Core Itanium 2,000,000,000 2010
Six-Core Itanium 2,270,000,000 2011
8-core Itanium 3,100,000,000 2012
62-Core Xeon Phi 5,000,000,000 2012

Tukwila features four cores, eight threads, 24MB of L3 cache, Turbo Boost, QuickPath interconnects, second-gen hardware virtualization tech, and some new reliability features, all laid out on a massive, two-billion-transistor die. Intel claims the new Itanium 9300 series more than doubles performance over previous-gen dual-core Itaniums, bringing eight times the interconnect bandwidth, five times the memory bandwidth, and seven times the memory capacity with "industry standard DDR3 components."Interestingly, Intel says these processors share a number of platform features with upcoming eight-core Nehalem EX processors, including "the Intel® QuickPath Interconnect, the Intel Scalable Memory Interconnect, the Intel® 7500 Scalable Memory Buffer (to take advantage of industry standard DDR3 memory), and I/O hub (Intel® 7500 chipset)."