4 May
2001
4 May
'01
6:57 p.m.
At 02:18 AM 5/4/01 -0500, you wrote:
Does anyone know how many transistors made up the 6502?
These days with
Intel's boasting of the number of transistors their latest processors use,
it'd be interesting to know what we used to get by using. What, it can't
have been more than a few thousand, right?
Wow -- such a long thread, and no answer yet that I've seen. The following
came from a few web sites, but mostly from these two:
http://www.intel.com/intel/museum/25anniv/hof/tspecs.htm
http://www.mznet.ne.jp/svd/multimedia.htm
4004 -- 2,300 (10 um)
8008 -- 3,500 (10 um)
8080 -- 6,000 (6 um)
z80 -- 8,500
6502 -- 4,000 one source, 9000 another source (I tend to believe the 4K
number more)
8086 -- 29,000 (3 um)
68000 -- 68,000 (lots of that in microcode)
80286 -- 134,000 (1.5 um)
80386 -- 275,000 (1 um)
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