On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 2:24 PM Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 2:04 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > <SNIP> > > Well, there is a lot to be said about moving what used to be external to internal. It does result in faster moves for pretty much everything. Moving data from one side of a chip to another is faster than moving data out of a chip and then back in again. I bet there is millions of transistors on a CPU chip nowadays. I need to google that Threadripper CPU. 64 cores in the top model I think. I bet it has a ton of transistors in it. > > > > Nah, think billions. I designed chips with millions of transistors in the early 1980's... >
I see I was wrong. According to Wikipedia we are now at over 2 trillion transistors for a processor and 5 trillion transistors for a memory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count Keep in mind that if even 1 out of 2 trillion transistors doesn't work the processor could be completely dead or have bugs that are very hard to discover. That's life in the world of semiconductors...
