Intel Processor Transistor Count
By Julius Rutledge
Intel processor transistor model count:
Processor Model | Year | Transistor Count |
Intel 4004 | 1971 | 2,300 |
Intel 8008 | 1972 | 3,500 |
Intel 8080 | 1974 | 4,500 |
Intel 8085 | 1976 | 6,500 |
Intel 8086 | 1978 | 29,000 |
Intel 8088 | 1979 | 29,000 |
Intel 80186 | 1982 | 55,000 |
Intel 80286 | 1982 | 134,000 |
Intel 80386 | 1985 | 275,000 |
Intel 80486 | 1989 | 1,180,000 |
Pentium | 1993 | 3,100,000 |
Pentium II | 1997 | 7,500,000 |
Pentium III | 1999 | 9,500,000 |
Pentium 4 | 2000 | 42,000,000 |
Atom | 2008 | 47,000,000 |
Itanium 2 | 2003 | 220,000,000 |
Core 2 Duo | 2006 | 291,000,000 |
Itanium 2 w/ 9MB Cache | 2004 | 592,000,000 |
Core i7 Quad | 2008 | 731,000,000 |
Six-Core Xeon 7400 | 2008 | 1,900,000,000 |
Six-Core Core i7 | 2010 | 1,170,000,000 |
Dual-Core Itanium 2 | 2006 | 1,700,000,000 |
Quad-Core Itanium Tukwila | 2010 | 2,000,000,000 |
8-Core Xeon Nehalem-E-X | 2010 | 2,300,000,000 |
10-Core Xeon Westmere-E-X | 2011 | 2,600,000,000 |
By the end of 2008 intel dished out details of a brand new ltanium quad-core CPU with a record busting two billion transistors. Like all ltanium, the new chip is aimed at high end servers and computer clusters. The year two billion transistors were introduce on a single processor chip. The code name for it is “Tukwila”, it is the latest milestone for Moore’s Law. It was a remarkable and accurate prediction made back in the 1960’s by intel co- founder Gordon Moore that computer chip densities would double every 18 months. This quad Tukwila will replace the existing dual-core ltanium 9100 series chips. Making up many of those two billion transistors is 30 MB of onchip cache memory. Intel biggest desktop CPU die, by contrast, gets by with just 410 million transistors and 6 MB of cache (two such dies are crammed into a single package to create a cores quad-core processor with 12 MB of cache). The information have receive came...