Computer trends

Chips (cont'd)

Evolution of Intel CPU chips:

	Bits	Date	Transistors	Clock speed MHz	Line width nm	Die size mm2
4004	4	1971	2 250	0.1	10 000	13.5
8008	8	1972	3 500	0.2	10 000	15.2
8080		1974	6 000	2.	6 000	20.0
8088	16/8	1979	29 000	8.	3 000	28.6	1st IBM PC
8086	16	1978	29 000	8.	3 000	28.6
80286		1982	134 000	12.5	1 500	68.7
80386	32	1985	275 000	20.	1 500	104.
80486		1989	1 200 000	25.	1 000	163.
Pentium		1993	3 100 000	66.	800	294.
		1994	3 300 000	75.	600	148.
		1995	3 300 000	120.	350	91.
Pentium II		1997	7 500 000	233.	350	203.
		1998	7 500 000	300.	250	131.
Pentium III		1999	9 500 000	450.	250	123.
		2000	28 000 000	533.	180	106.
Pentium 4		2000	42 000 000	1500.	180	217.
		2002	55 000 000	2200.	130	146.
		2004	125 000 000	2800.	90	112.
		2006	188 000 000	3200.	65	81.
Itanium	64	2001	25 000 000	733.	180	300.
Itanium 2		2003	220 000 000	900.	180	421.
		2004	592 000 000	1300.	130	374.
		2006	1 720 000 000	1400.	90	596.
Core 2		2006	291 000 000	1860.	65	143.
		2008	800 000 000		45

(These numbers are from various sources; see HTML source for references. The numbers are meant just to be representative. Often different versions with the same model name would have different specifications.)

Slide show generated from trends.html by Weasel 2009 Jan 15