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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
8080
5,000 trans
1974
“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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8080, which appears in 1974, contain 5000 transistors.