> > There is a scaled up exploded model of a Pentium that was a 1M cube where >> I worked. > >
> When you think about it at that time, 1993, it contained 3.1 million >> transistors, 8kb cache, 8kb data and ran at a maximium of 66MHz and was >> built on 0.8µm technology . > > Compare that with what is now on the market, Skylake, 1,750 million transistors, running at 4GHz, and with 14nm technology. Moore's Law predicted that the number of transistors in a processor would double every year, this is only achievable now due to 3D transistor architecture and the processes behind them. Processor chips may have gotten a little bit bigger but not by much but could you imagine the size of a computer based on the ENIAC <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC> technology and the power requirements? The original consumed 150KW and weighed about 30 tons, a modern day version would need its own power station and would take up a football stadium, the heat generated by it could warm a small country, mind you, think of all those counters that would be available if they scrapped it! > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/7a2cc077-0a57-4066-8965-5dbaffac8a77%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
