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March of the Microprocessor
Intel, which produced the first computer-on-a-chip in 1971 from a couple
thousand transistors, now cranks out chips with millions of transistors.
Today's chips crunch numbers faster than a Cray supercomputer could in the late
1980s. Within 15 years, Intel expects a descendant with a billion transistors
that could whip a dozen of today's fastest supercomputers.
CHIP PUBLIC INITIAL NUMBER OF INITIAL
DEBUT COST TRANSISTORS MIPS*
4004 11/71 $ 200 2,300 0.06
8008 4/72 $ 300 3,500 0.06
8080 4/74 $ 300 6,000 0.6
8086 6/78 $ 360 29,000 0.3
8088 6/79 $ 360 29,000 0.3
i286 2/82 $ 360 134,000 0.9
i386 10/85 $ 299 275,000 5
i486 4/89 $ 950 1.2 MILLION 20
PENTIUM 3/93 $ 878 3.1 MILLION 100
PENTIUM PRO 3/95 $ 974 5.5 MILLION 300
PROJECTIONS
786 1997 $ 1,000 8 MILLION 500
886 2000 $ 1,000 15 MILLION 1,000
1286 2011 N/A 1 BILLION 100,000
*Millions of instructions per second
DATA: INTEL CORP., DATAQUEST INC.
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Updated June 14, 1997 by bwwebmaster
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