Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 09:19:42 10/27/02
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On October 27, 2002 at 10:42:05, Bob Durrett wrote: >How Small Can a Microprocessor Get? > >Maybe the question should be: "How many microprocessors per square inch on a >wafer will be doable in the future? > >Part of the my problem is that I do not know how many electronic components >[resistive, transistor, etc.] are required to make a microprocessor. How many? > > >Bob D. I believe the Athlon has 35 million transistors and the PIV has 55 million. People are already putting more than one processor on a chip; there is talk of AMD putting more than 1 Hammer on a chip. http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/whitepapers/power4.html anthony
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