CCW
02-03-2004, 11:23 AM
Review Quote:
Intel’s first processors in the early 1970’s consisted of just one or two thousand transistors. That increased to tens of thousands in the late seventies as Intel pushed its 8086 processor. Progress continued through the hundreds of thousands of transistors with the 80286 and 80386 families, and finally reached the million transistor mark with the 486DX and its integrated FPU. The nineties was the decade of the Pentium processor, from its 3-million transistor introduction in 1993 to the 25-million transistor Pentium III in the late nineties. Finally, the current Pentium 4 processors boast a modest 55-million transistor count.
Read it here (http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1686/).
Intel’s first processors in the early 1970’s consisted of just one or two thousand transistors. That increased to tens of thousands in the late seventies as Intel pushed its 8086 processor. Progress continued through the hundreds of thousands of transistors with the 80286 and 80386 families, and finally reached the million transistor mark with the 486DX and its integrated FPU. The nineties was the decade of the Pentium processor, from its 3-million transistor introduction in 1993 to the 25-million transistor Pentium III in the late nineties. Finally, the current Pentium 4 processors boast a modest 55-million transistor count.
Read it here (http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1686/).