{"id":44143,"date":"2015-04-27T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2015\/04\/27\/wow-they-really-crammed-a-lot-into-those-410-transistors\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T14:42:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T21:42:21","slug":"20150427-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20150427-01\/?p=44143","title":{"rendered":"Wow, they really crammed a lot into those 410 transistors"},"content":{"rendered":"

A colleague of mine pointed out that in yesterday’s Seattle Times<\/i>, there was an article about Moore’s Law<\/i><\/a>. To illustrate the progress of technology, they included some highlights, including the following piece of trivia:<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

You can see the photo and caption in the online version of the article if you go to the slide show and look at photo number three.<\/p>\n

This is an impressive feat. Intel managed to cram a Core 2 Duo into only an eighth as many transistors as the 6502.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, it does help to explain why the chip has so few registers. There weren’t any transistors left!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just an order of magnitude. Or three. Or more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-44143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Just an order of magnitude. Or three. Or more.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}