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CS269: HW/SW Engineering of Embedded Systems, Winter02
The World According to Moore
4004
2,250 trans
1971
8008
2,500 trans
1972
“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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The next year see 8008, which contains 2500 transistors.