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CS269: HW/SW Engineering of Embedded Systems, Winter02
The World According to Moore
4004
2,250 trans
1971
“Cramming More Components
Onto Integrated Circuits”,
Electronics, April, 1965
•1959, invention of IC (Kilby/Noyce)
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•Moore’s Law
–Number of transistors shall double every year
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Their first processor chip, 4004, appears on the market in 1971, contain 2,250 transistors.