By Kristina Grifantini
January/February 2009

Moore's Law

The computer chip has evolved from a simple integrated circuit to a microprocessor with millions of transistors.

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AMD’s Phenom II, scheduled for release in early 2009, has four cores (flanking the rightmost yellow blocks), a large shared cache, and around 758 million transistors.

Credit: Courtesy of AMD

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