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Transistors
10,000,000,000
Dual-Core Intel “Itanium” 2 Processor
Intel “Itanium” 2 Processor
Intel “Itanium” Processor
1,000,000,000
Moore's law
100,000,000
Intel “Pentium” 4 Processor
Intel “Pentium” III Processor
Intel “Pentium” II Processor
10,000,000
Intel “Pentium” Processor
Intel486
TM
Processor
1,000,000
Intel386
TM
Processor
286
100,000
8086
10,000
8008
8080
4004
1,000
1970
1975
1980
1985
1990
1995 000 005 010
FIGURE A.1
Increase of the number of transistors on an Intel chip.
1,000,000
Disk capacity
Disk throughput
Network bandwidth
CPU speed
100,000
10,000
1,000
100
10
1
1990
2000
Year
2010
FIGURE A.2
Hardware trends in the 90s and the current decade.
high that the value of their lifetime productivity can never justify it. Lastly,
the power requirements of chips are also increasing. More power being
equivalent to more heat equivalent to bigger batteries implies that at some
point, it becomes increasingly difficult to power these chips while putting
them on smaller platforms.
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