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    Moore's law says that the number of transistors on computer chips - roughly equivalent to computer processing power - doubles about every two years. This graphic gives a visual representation of the growth in microprocessors from 1971 to 2013. Legend: Each green box represents 2,000 transistors. Every second order of magnitude change is represented by a new colour box. Each blue box represents 100 green boxes and therefore represents 200,000 transistors. Each pink box represents 100 blue boxes and each orange box represents 100 pink boxes.

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    Moore's law says that the number of transistors on computer chips - roughly equivalent to computer processing power - doubles about every two years. This graphic gives a visual representation of the growth in microprocessors from 1971 to 2013. Legend: Each green box represents 2,000 transistors. Every second order of magnitude change is represented by a new colour box. Each blue box represents 100 green boxes and therefore represents 200,000 transistors. Each pink box represents 100 blue boxes and each orange box represents 100 pink boxes.

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    Moores Law: of Microprocessor Transistor Counts

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    Moore's law says that the number of transistors on computer chips - roughly equivalent to computer processing power - doubles about every two years. This graphic gives a visual representation of the growth in microprocessors from 1971 to 2013. Legend: Each green box represents 2,000 transistors. Every second order of magnitude change is represented by a new colour box. Each blue box represents 100 green boxes and therefore represents 200,000 transistors. Each pink box represents 100 blue boxes and each orange box represents 100 pink boxes.

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    = 2,000 Transistors = 100 = 100 = 100

    Microprocessors from 1971 to 2013 are listed in this chart. Each green box represents 2,000 transistors. Every second order of magnitude change is represented by a new colour box. Each blue box represents 100 green boxes and therefore represents 200,000 transistors. Each pink box represents 100 blue boxes and each orange box represents 100 pink boxes. Data source: Transistor Count (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count)

    MOORES LAW
    of Microprocessor Transistor Counts
    Moores law says that the number of transistors on computer chips roughly equivalent to computer processing power doubles about every two years.

    Year 1971 1972 1974 1976 1978 1979 1982

    Processor Intel 4004 Intel 8008 RCA 1802 Zilog Z80 Intel 8086 Motorola 68000 Intel 80286

    Number of transistors

    1984 1985 1988 1989 1991 1993 1995

    Motorola 68020 Intel 80386 Intel i960 Intel 80486 R4000 Pentium Pentium Pro

    1997

    AMD K6

    1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2006

    AMD K7 Pentium 4 Willamette Pentium III Tualatin Itanium 2 McKinley Itanium 2 Madison 6M Itanium 2 with 9MB cache Dual-Core Itanium 2

    2008

    Six-Core Xeon 7400

    2010 2011 2012 2013

    8-Core Xeon Nehalem-EX 10-Core Xeon Westmere-EX 62-Core Xeon Phi Xbox One Main SoC

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