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Plot of MOS transistor counts for microprocessors against dates of introduction. The curve shows counts doubling every two years, per Moore's law.
The transistor count is the number of transistors on an integrated circuit (IC). It typically refers to the number of MOSFETs (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors, or MOS transistors) on an IC chip, as all modern ICs use MOSFETs. It is the most common measure of IC complexity (although the majority of transistors in modern microprocessors are contained in the cache memories, which consist mostly of the same memory cell circuits replicated many times). The rate at which MOS transistor counts have increased generally follows Moore's law, which observed that the transistor count doubles approximately every two years.
As of 2019, the largest transistor count in a commercially available microprocessor is 39.54 billion MOSFETs, in AMD's Zen 2 based Epyc Rome, which is a 3D integrated circuit (with eight dies in a single package) fabricated using TSMC's 7 nm FinFET semiconductor manufacturing process.[1][2] As of 2018, the highest transistor count in a graphics processing unit (GPU) is Nvidia's GV100 Volta with 21.1 billion MOSFETs, manufactured using TSMC's 12 nm FinFET process.[3] As of 2019, the highest transistor count in any IC chip is Samsung's 1 TB eUFS (3D-stacked) V-NAND flash memory chip, with 2 trillion floating-gate MOSFETs (4 bits per transistor).[4] As of 2019, the highest transistor count in a non-memory chip is a deep learning engine called the Wafer Scale Engine by Cerebras, using a special design to route around any non-functional core on the device; it has 1.2 trillion MOSFETs, manufactured using TSMC's 16 nm FinFET process.[5][6][7][8]
In terms of computer systems that consist of numerous integrated circuits, the supercomputer with the highest transistor count as of 2016 is the Chinese-designed Sunway TaihuLight, which has for all CPUs/nodes (1012 for the 10 million cores and for RAM 1015 for the 1.3 million GB) combined "about 400 trillion transistors in the processing part of the hardware" and "the DRAM includes about 12 quadrillion transistors, and that's about 97 percent of all the transistors."[9] To compare, the smallest computer, as of 2018 dwarfed by a grain of sand, has on the order of 100,000 transistors, and the one, fully programmable, with the fewest transistors ever has 130 transistors or fewer.
In terms of the total number of transistors in existence, it has been estimated that a total of 13 sextillion (1.3×1022) MOSFETs have been manufactured worldwide between 1960 and 2018, accounting for at least 99.9% of all transistors. This makes the MOSFET the most widely manufactured device in history.[10]
Part of an IBM 7070 card cage populated with Standard Modular System cards
Among the earliest products to use transistors were portable transistor radios, introduced in 1954, which typically used 4 to 8 transistors, often advertising the number on the radio's case. However, early junction transistors were relatively bulky devices that were difficult to manufacture on a mass-production basis, limiting the transistor counts and restricting their usage to a number of specialised applications.[11]
The MOSFET (MOS transistor), invented by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng at Bell Labs in 1959,[12] was the first truly compact transistor that could be miniaturised and mass-produced for a wide range of uses.[11] The MOSFET made it possible to build high-density integrated circuits (ICs),[13] enabling Moore's law[14][15] and very large-scale integration.[16] Atalla first proposed the concept of the MOS integrated circuit (MOS IC) chip in 1960, followed by Kahng in 1961, both noting that the MOSFET's ease of fabrication made it useful for integrated circuits.[11][17] The earliest experimental MOS IC to be demonstrated was a 16-transistor chip built by Fred Heiman and Steven Hofstein at RCA Laboratories in 1962.[15] Further large-scale integration was made possible with an improvement in MOSFET semiconductor device fabrication, the CMOS process, developed by Chih-Tang Sah and Frank Wanlass at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1963.[18]
See also: Microprocessor chronology and Microcontroller
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A microprocessor incorporates the functions of a computer's central processing unit on a single integrated circuit. It is a multi-purpose, programmable device that accepts digital data as input, processes it according to instructions stored in its memory, and provides results as output.
The development of MOS integrated circuit technology in the 1960s led to the development of the first microprocessors.[19] The 20-bit MP944, developed by Garrett AiResearch for the U.S. Navy's F-14 Tomcat fighter in 1970, is considered by its designer Ray Holt to be the first microprocessor.[20] It was a multi-chip microprocessor, fabricated on six MOS chips. However, it was classified by the Navy until 1998. The 4-bit Intel 4004, released in 1971, was the first single-chip microprocessor. It was made possible with an improvement in MOSFET design, MOS silicon-gate technology (SGT), developed in 1968 at Fairchild Semiconductor by Federico Faggin, who went on to use MOS SGT technology to develop the 4004 with Marcian Hoff, Stanley Mazor and Masatoshi Shima at Intel.[19]
All chips over e.g. a million transistors have lots of memory, usually cache memories in level 1 and 2 or more levels, accounting for most transistors on microprocessors in modern times, where large caches have become the norm. The level 1 caches of the Pentium Pro die accounted for over 14% of its transistors, while the much larger L2 cache was on a separate die, but on-package, so it's not included in the transistor count. Later chips included more levels, L2 or even L3 on-chip. The last DEC Alpha chip made has 90% of it for cache.[21]
While Intel's i960CA small cache of 1 KB, at about 50,000 transistors, isn't a big part of the chip, it alone would have been very large in early microprocessors. In the ARM 3 chip, with 4 KB, the cache was over 63% of the chip, and in the Intel 80486 its larger cache is only over a third of it because the rest of the chip is more complex. So cache memories are the largest factor, except for in early chips with smaller caches or even earlier chips with no cache at all. Then the inherent complexity, e.g. number of instructions, is the dominant factor, more than e.g. the memory the registers of the chip represent.
Processor | MOS transistor count | Date of introduction |
Designer | MOS process |
Area |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
MP944 (20-bit, 6-chip) | ? | 1970[20][a] | Garrett AiResearch | ? | ? |
Intel 4004 (4-bit, 16-pin) | 2,250 | 1971 | Intel | 10,000 nm | 12 mm2 |
Intel 8008 (8-bit, 18-pin) | 3,500 | 1972 | Intel | 10,000 nm | 14 mm2 |
NEC μCOM-4 (4-bit, 42-pin) | 2,500[22][23] | 1973 | NEC | 7,500 nm[24] | ? |
Toshiba TLCS-12 (12-bit) | 11,000+[25] | 1973 | Toshiba | 6,000 nm | 32 mm2 |
Intel 4040 (4-bit, 16-pin) | 3,000 | 1974 | Intel | 10,000 nm | 12 mm2 |
Motorola 6800 (8-bit, 40-pin) | 4,100 | 1974 | Motorola | 6,000 nm | 16 mm2 |
Intel 8080 (8-bit, 40-pin) | 6,000 | 1974 | Intel | 6,000 nm | 20 mm2 |
TMS 1000 (4-bit, 28-pin) | 8,000 | 1974[26] | Texas Instruments | 8,000 nm | 11 mm2 |
MOS Technology 6502 (8-bit, 40-pin) | 4,528[b][27] | 1975 | MOS Technology | 8,000 nm | 21 mm2 |
Intersil IM6100 (12-bit, 40-pin; clone of PDP-8) | 4,000 | 1975 | Intersil | ||
CDP 1801 (8-bit, 2-chip, 40-pin) | 5,000 | 1975 | RCA | ||
RCA 1802 (8-bit, 40-pin) | 5,000 | 1976 | RCA | 5,000 nm | 27 mm2 |
Zilog Z80 (8-bit, 4-bit ALU, 40-pin) | 8,500[c] | 1976 | Zilog | 4,000 nm | 18 mm2 |
Intel 8085 (8-bit, 40-pin) | 6,500 | 1976 | Intel | 3,000 nm | 20 mm2 |
TMS9900 (16-bit) | 8,000 | 1976 | Texas Instruments | ||
Motorola MC14500B (1-bit, 16-pin) | ? | 1977 | Motorola | ? | ? |
Bellmac-8 (8-bit) | 7,000 | 1977 | Bell Labs | 5,000 nm | |
Motorola 6809 (8-bit with some 16-bit features, 40-pin) | 9,000 | 1978 | Motorola | 5,000 nm | 21 mm2 |
Intel 8086 (16-bit, 40-pin) | 29,000 | 1978 | Intel | 3,000 nm | 33 mm2 |
Zilog Z8000 (16-bit) | 17,500[28] | 1979 | Zilog | ||
Intel 8088 (16-bit, 8-bit data bus) | 29,000 | 1979 | Intel | 3,000 nm | 33 mm2 |
Motorola 68000 (16/32-bit, 32-bit registers, 16-bit ALU) | 68,000[29] | 1979 | Motorola | 3,500 nm | 44 mm2 |
Intel 8051 (8-bit, 40-pin) | 50,000 | 1980 | Intel | ||
WDC 65C02 | 11,500[30] | 1981 | WDC | 3,000 nm | 6 mm2 |
ROMP (32-bit) | 45,000 | 1981 | IBM | 2,000 nm | |
Intel 80186 (16-bit, 68-pin) | 55,000 | 1982 | Intel | 3,000 nm | 60 mm2 |
Intel 80286 (16-bit, 68-pin) | 134,000 | 1982 | Intel | 1,500 nm | 49 mm2 |
WDC 65C816 (8/16-bit) | 22,000[31] | 1983 | WDC | 3,000 nm[32] | 9 mm2 |
NEC V20 | 63,000 | 1984 | NEC | ||
Motorola 68020 (32-bit; 114 pins used) | 190,000[33] | 1984 | Motorola | 2,000 nm | 85 mm2 |
Intel 80386 (32-bit, 132-pin; no cache) | 275,000 | 1985 | Intel | 1,500 nm | 104 mm2 |
ARM 1 (32-bit; no cache) | 25,000[33] | 1985 | Acorn | 3,000 nm | 50 mm2 |
Novix NC4016 (16-bit) | 16,000[34] | 1985[35] | Harris Corporation | 3,000 nm[36] | |
SPARC MB86900 (32-bit; no cache) | 110,000[37] | 1986 | Fujitsu | 1,200 nm | |
NEC V60[38] (32-bit; no cache) | 375,000 | 1986 | NEC | 1,500 nm | |
ARM 2 (32-bit, 84-pin; no cache) | 27,000[39][33] | 1986 | Acorn | 2,000 nm | 30.25 mm2 |
Z80000 (32-bit; very small cache) | 91,000 | 1986 | Zilog | ||
NEC V70[38] (32-bit; no cache) | 385,000 | 1987 | NEC | 1,500 nm | |
Hitachi Gmicro/200[40] | 730,000 | 1987 | Hitachi | 1,000 nm | |
Motorola 68030 (32-bit, very small caches) | 273,000 | 1987 | Motorola | 800 nm | 102 mm2 |
TI Explorer's 32-bit Lisp machine chip | 553,000[41] | 1987 | Texas Instruments | 2,000 nm[42] | |
DEC WRL MultiTitan | 180,000[43] | 1988 | DEC WRL | 1,500 nm | 61 mm2 |
Intel i960 (32-bit, 33-bit memory subsystem, no cache) | 250,000[44] | 1988 | Intel | 1,500 nm[45] | |
Intel i960CA (32-bit, cache) | 600,000[45] | 1989 | Intel | 800 nm | 143 mm2 |
Intel i860 (32/64-bit, 128-bit SIMD, cache, VLIW) | 1,000,000[46] | 1989 | Intel | ||
Intel 80486 (32-bit, 4 KB cache) | 1,180,235 | 1989 | Intel | 1000 nm | 173 mm2 |
ARM 3 (32-bit, 4 KB cache) | 310,000 | 1989 | Acorn | 1,500 nm | 87 mm2 |
Motorola 68040 (32-bit, 8 KB caches) | 1,200,000 | 1990 | Motorola | 650 nm | 152 mm2 |
R4000 (64-bit, 16 KB of caches) | 1,350,000 | 1991 | MIPS | 1,000 nm | 213 mm2 |
ARM 6 (32-bit, no cache for this 60 variant) | 35,000 | 1991 | ARM | 800 nm | |
Hitachi SH-1 (32-bit, no cache) | 600,000[47] | 1992[48] | Hitachi | 800 nm | 10 mm2 |
Intel i960CF (32-bit, cache) | 900,000[45] | 1992 | Intel | 125 mm2 | |
DEC Alpha 21064 (64-bit, 290-pin; 16 KB of caches) | 1,680,000 | 1992 | DEC | 750 nm | 233.52 mm2 |
Hitachi HARP-1 (32-bit, cache) | 2,800,000[49] | 1993 | Hitachi | 500 nm | 267 mm2 |
Pentium (32-bit, 16 KB of caches) | 3,100,000 | 1993 | Intel | 800 nm | 294 mm2 |
ARM700 (32-bit; 8 KB cache) | 578,977[50] | 1994 | ARM | 700 nm | 68.51 mm2 |
MuP21 (21-bit,[51] 40-pin; includes video) | 7,000[52] | 1994 | Offete Enterprises | 1200 nm | |
Motorola 68060 (32-bit, 16 KB of caches) | 2,500,000 | 1994 | Motorola | 600 nm | 218 mm2 |
SA-110 (32-bit, 32 KB of caches) | 2,500,000[33] | 1995 | Acorn/DEC/Apple | 350 nm | 50 mm2 |
Pentium Pro (32-bit, 16 KB of caches;[53] L2 cache on-package, but on separate die) | 5,500,000[54] | 1995 | Intel | 500 nm | 307 mm2 |
AMD K5 (32-bit, caches) | 4,300,000 | 1996 | AMD | 500 nm | 251 mm2 |
Hitachi SH-4 (32-bit, caches) | 10,000,000[55] | 1997 | Hitachi | 200 nm[56] | 42 mm2[57] |
Pentium II Klamath (32-bit, 64-bit SIMD, caches) | 7,500,000 | 1997 | Intel | 350 nm | 195 mm2 |
AMD K6 (32-bit, caches) | 8,800,000 | 1997 | AMD | 350 nm | 162 mm2 |
F21 (21-bit; includes e.g. video) | 15,000 | 1997[52] | Offete Enterprises | ||
AVR (8-bit, 40-pin; w/memory) | 140,000 (48,000 excl. memory[58]) | 1997 | Nordic VLSI/Atmel | ||
Pentium II Deschutes (32-bit, large cache) | 7,500,000 | 1998 | Intel | 250 nm | 113 mm2 |
ARM 9TDMI (32-bit, no cache) | 111,000[33] | 1999 | Acorn | 350 nm | 4.8 mm2 |
Pentium III Katmai (32-bit, 128-bit SIMD, caches) | 9,500,000 | 1999 | Intel | 250 nm | 128 mm2 |
Emotion Engine (64-bit, 128-bit SIMD, cache) | 13,500,000[59] | 1999 | Sony/Toshiba | 180 nm[60] | 240 mm2[61] |
Pentium II Mobile Dixon (32-bit, caches) | 27,400,000 | 1999 | Intel | 180 nm | 180 mm2 |
AMD K6-III (32-bit, caches) | 21,300,000 | 1999 | AMD | 250 nm | 118 mm2 |
AMD K7 (32-bit, caches) | 22,000,000 | 1999 | AMD | 250 nm | 184 mm2 |
Gekko (32-bit, large cache) | 21,000,000[62] | 2000 | IBM/Nintendo | 180 nm | 43 mm2 |
Pentium III Coppermine (32-bit, large cache) | 21,000,000 | 2000 | Intel | 180 nm | 80 mm2 |
Pentium 4 Willamette (32-bit, large cache) | 42,000,000 | 2000 | Intel | 180 nm | 217 mm2 |
SPARC64 V (64-bit, large cache) | 191,000,000[63] | 2001 | Fujitsu | 130 nm[64] | 290 mm2 |
Pentium III Tualatin (32-bit, large cache) | 45,000,000 | 2001 | Intel | 130 nm | 81 mm2 |
Pentium 4 Northwood (32-bit, large cache) | 55,000,000 | 2002 | Intel | 130 nm | 145 mm2 |
Itanium 2 McKinley (64-bit, large cache) | 220,000,000 | 2002 | Intel | 180 nm | 421 mm2 |
DEC Alpha 21364 (64-bit, 946-pin, SIMD, very large caches) | 152,000,000[21] | 2003 | DEC | 180 nm | 397 mm2 |
Barton (32-bit, large cache) | 54,300,000 | 2003 | AMD | 130 nm | 101 mm2 |
AMD K8 (64-bit, large cache) | 105,900,000 | 2003 | AMD | 130 nm | 193 mm2 |
Itanium 2 Madison 6M (64-bit) | 410,000,000 | 2003 | Intel | 130 nm | 374 mm2 |
Pentium 4 Prescott (32-bit, large cache) | 112,000,000 | 2004 | Intel | 90 nm | 110 mm2 |
SPARC64 V+ (64-bit, large cache) | 400,000,000[65] | 2004 | Fujitsu | 90 nm | 294 mm2 |
Itanium 2 (64-bit;9 MB cache) | 592,000,000 | 2004 | Intel | 130 nm | 432 mm2 |
Pentium 4 Prescott-2M (32-bit, large cache) | 169,000,000 | 2005 | Intel | 90 nm | 143 mm2 |
Pentium D Smithfield (32-bit, large cache) | 228,000,000 | 2005 | Intel | 90 nm | 206 mm2 |
Xenon (64-bit, 128-bit SIMD, large cache) | 165,000,000 | 2005 | IBM | 90 nm | |
Cell (32-bit, cache) | 250,000,000[66] | 2005 | Sony/IBM/Toshiba | 90 nm | 221 mm2 |
Pentium 4 Cedar Mill (32-bit, large cache) | 184,000,000 | 2006 | Intel | 65 nm | 90 mm2 |
Pentium D Presler (32-bit, large cache) | 362,000,000 | 2006 | Intel | 65 nm | 162 mm2 |
Core 2 Duo Conroe (dual-core 64-bit, large caches) | 291,000,000 | 2006 | Intel | 65 nm | 143 mm2 |
Dual-core Itanium 2 (64-bit, SIMD, large caches) | 1,700,000,000[67] | 2006 | Intel | 90 nm | 596 mm2 |
AMD K10 quad-core 2M L3 (64-bit, large caches) | 463,000,000[68] | 2007 | AMD | 65 nm | 283 mm2 |
ARM Cortex-A9 (32-bit, (optional) SIMD, caches) | 26,000,000[69] | 2007 | ARM | 45 nm | 31 mm2 |
Core 2 Duo Wolfdale (dual-core 64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 411,000,000 | 2007 | Intel | 45 nm | 107 mm2 |
POWER6 (64-bit, large caches) | 789,000,000 | 2007 | IBM | 65 nm | 341 mm2 |
Core 2 Duo Allendale (dual-core 64-bit, SIMD, large caches) | 169,000,000 | 2007 | Intel | 65 nm | 111 mm2 |
Uniphier | 250,000,000[70] | 2007 | Matsushita | 45 nm | ? |
SPARC64 VI (64-bit, SIMD, large caches) | 540,000,000 | 2007[71] | Fujitsu | 90 nm | 421 mm2 |
Core 2 Duo Wolfdale 3M (dual-core 64-bit, SIMD, large caches) | 230,000,000 | 2008 | Intel | 45 nm | 83 mm2 |
Core i7 (quad-core 64-bit, SIMD, large caches) | 731,000,000 | 2008 | Intel | 45 nm | 263 mm2 |
AMD K10 quad-core 6M L3 (64-bit, SIMD, large caches) | 758,000,000[68] | 2008 | AMD | 45 nm | 258 mm2 |
Atom (32-bit, large cache) | 47,000,000 | 2008 | Intel | 45 nm | 24 mm2 |
SPARC64 VII (64-bit, SIMD, large caches) | 600,000,000 | 2008[72] | Fujitsu | 65 nm | 445 mm2 |
Six-core Xeon 7400 (64-bit, SIMD, large caches) | 1,900,000,000 | 2008 | Intel | 45 nm | 503 mm2 |
Six-core Opteron 2400 (64-bit, SIMD, large caches) | 904,000,000 | 2009 | AMD | 45 nm | 346 mm2 |
SPARC64 VIIIfx (64-bit, SIMD, large caches) | 760,000,000[73] | 2009 | Fujitsu | 45 nm | 513 mm2 |
16-core SPARC T3 (64-bit, SIMD, large caches) | 1,000,000,000[74] | 2010 | Sun/Oracle | 40 nm | 377 mm2 |
Six-core Core i7 (Gulftown) | 1,170,000,000 | 2010 | Intel | 32 nm | 240 mm2 |
8-core POWER7 32M L3 (64-bit, SIMD, large caches) | 1,200,000,000 | 2010 | IBM | 45 nm | 567 mm2 |
Quad-core z196[75] (64-bit, very large caches) | 1,400,000,000 | 2010 | IBM | 45 nm | 512 mm2 |
Quad-core Itanium Tukwila (64-bit, SIMD, large caches) | 2,000,000,000[76] | 2010 | Intel | 65 nm | 699 mm2 |
8-core Xeon Nehalem-EX (64-bit, SIMD, large caches) | 2,300,000,000[77] | 2010 | Intel | 45 nm | 684 mm2 |
SPARC64 IXfx (64-bit, SIMD, large caches) | 1,870,000,000[78] | 2011 | Fujitsu | 40 nm | 484 mm2 |
Quad-core + GPU Core i7 (64-bit, SIMD, large caches) | 1,160,000,000 | 2011 | Intel | 32 nm | 216 mm2 |
Six-core Core i7/8-core Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge-E/EP) (64-bit, SIMD, large caches) |
2,270,000,000[79] | 2011 | Intel | 32 nm | 434 mm2 |
10-core Xeon Westmere-EX (64-bit, SIMD, large caches) | 2,600,000,000 | 2011 | Intel | 32 nm | 512 mm2 |
Atom "Medfield" (64-bit) | 432,000,000[80] | 2012 | Intel | 32 nm | 64 mm2 |
SPARC64 X (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 2,990,000,000[81] | 2012 | Fujitsu | 28 nm | 600 mm2 |
8-core AMD Bulldozer (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 1,200,000,000[82] | 2012 | AMD | 32 nm | 315 mm2 |
Quad-core + GPU AMD Trinity (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 1,303,000,000 | 2012 | AMD | 32 nm | 246 mm2 |
Quad-core + GPU Core i7 Ivy Bridge (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 1,400,000,000 | 2012 | Intel | 22 nm | 160 mm2 |
8-core POWER7+ (64-bit, SIMD, 80 MB L3 cache) | 2,100,000,000 | 2012 | IBM | 32 nm | 567 mm2 |
Six-core zEC12 (64-bit, SIMD, large caches) | 2,750,000,000 | 2012 | IBM | 32 nm | 597 mm2 |
8-core Itanium Poulson (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 3,100,000,000 | 2012 | Intel | 32 nm | 544 mm2 |
61-core Xeon Phi (32-bit, 512-bit SIMD, caches) | 5,000,000,000[83] | 2012 | Intel | 22 nm | 720 mm2 |
Apple A7 (dual-core 64/32-bit ARM64, "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | 1,000,000,000 | 2013 | Apple | 28 nm | 102 mm2 |
Six-core Core i7 Ivy Bridge E (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 1,860,000,000 | 2013 | Intel | 22 nm | 256 mm2 |
12-core POWER8 (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 4,200,000,000 | 2013 | IBM | 22 nm | 650 mm2 |
Xbox One main SoC (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 5,000,000,000 | 2013 | Microsoft/AMD | 28 nm | 363 mm2 |
Quad-core + GPU Core i7 Haswell (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 1,400,000,000[84] | 2014 | Intel | 22 nm | 177 mm2 |
Apple A8 (dual-core 64/32-bit ARM64 "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | 2,000,000,000 | 2014 | Apple | 20 nm | 89 mm2 |
8-core Core i7 Haswell-E (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 2,600,000,000[85] | 2014 | Intel | 22 nm | 355 mm2 |
Apple A8X (tri-core 64/32-bit ARM64 "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | 3,000,000,000[86] | 2014 | Apple | 20 nm | 128 mm2 |
15-core Xeon Ivy Bridge-EX (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 4,310,000,000[87] | 2014 | Intel | 22 nm | 541 mm2 |
18-core Xeon Haswell-E5 (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 5,560,000,000[88] | 2014 | Intel | 22 nm | 661 mm2 |
Quad-core + GPU GT2 Core i7 Skylake K (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 1,750,000,000 | 2015 | Intel | 14 nm | 122 mm2 |
Dual-core + GPU Iris Core i7 Broadwell-U (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 1,900,000,000[89] | 2015 | Intel | 14 nm | 133 mm2 |
Apple A9 (dual-core 64/32-bit ARM64 "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | 2,000,000,000+ | 2015 | Apple | 14 nm (Samsung) |
96 mm2 (Samsung) |
16 nm (TSMC) |
104.5 mm2 (TSMC) |
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Apple A9X (dual core 64/32-bit ARM64 "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | 3,000,000,000+ | 2015 | Apple | 16 nm | 143.9 mm2 |
IBM z13 (64-bit, caches) | 3,990,000,000 | 2015 | IBM | 22 nm | 678 mm2 |
IBM z13 Storage Controller | 7,100,000,000 | 2015 | IBM | 22 nm | 678 mm2 |
32-core SPARC M7 (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 10,000,000,000[90] | 2015 | Oracle | 20 nm | |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 (octa-core 64/32-bit ARM64 "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | 3,000,000,000[91][92] | 2016 | Qualcomm | 10 nm | 72.3 mm2 |
10-core Core i7 Broadwell-E (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 3,200,000,000[93] | 2016 | Intel | 14 nm | 246 mm2[94] |
Apple A10 Fusion (quad-core 64/32-bit ARM64 "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | 3,300,000,000 | 2016 | Apple | 16 nm | 125 mm2 |
HiSilicon Kirin 960 (octa-core 64/32-bit ARM64 "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | 4,000,000,000[95] | 2016 | Huawei | 16 nm | 110.00 mm2 |
22-core Xeon Broadwell-E5 (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 7,200,000,000[96] | 2016 | Intel | 14 nm | 456 mm2 |
72-core Xeon Phi (64-bit, 512-bit SIMD, caches) | 8,000,000,000 | 2016 | Intel | 14 nm | 683 mm2 |
Zip CPU (32-bit, for FPGAs) | 1,286 6-LUTs[97] | 2016 | Gisselquist Technology | ||
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 (octa-core 64/32-bit ARM64 "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | 5,300,000,000[98] | 2017 | Qualcomm | 10 nm | 94 mm2 |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 (octa-core 64/32-bit ARM64 "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | 5,300,000,000[99] | 2017 | Qualcomm | 10 nm | 94 mm2 |
Apple A11 Bionic (hexa-core 64/32-bit ARM64 "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | 4,300,000,000 | 2017 | Apple | 10 nm | 89.23 mm2 |
Zeppelin SoC Ryzen (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 4,800,000,000[100] | 2017 | AMD | 14 nm | 192 mm2 |
Ryzen 5 1600 Ryzen (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 4,800,000,000[101] | 2017 | AMD | 14 nm | 213 mm2 |
Ryzen 5 1600 X Ryzen (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 4,800,000,000[102] | 2017 | AMD | 14 nm | 213 mm2 |
IBM z14 (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 6,100,000,000 | 2017 | IBM | 14 nm | 696 mm2 |
IBM z14 Storage Controller (64-bit) | 9,700,000,000 | 2017 | IBM | 14 nm | 696 mm2 |
HiSilicon Kirin 970 (octa-core 64/32-bit ARM64 "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | 5,500,000,000[103] | 2017 | Huawei | 10 nm | 96.72 mm2 |
Xbox One X (Project Scorpio) main SoC (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 7,000,000,000[104] | 2017 | Microsoft/AMD | 16 nm | 360 mm2[104] |
28-core Xeon Platinum 8180 (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 8,000,000,000[105][disputed – discuss] | 2017 | Intel | 14 nm | |
POWER9 (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 8,000,000,000 | 2017 | IBM | 14 nm | 695 mm2 |
Freedom U500 Base Platform Chip (E51, 4×U54) RISC-V (64-bit, caches) | 250,000,000[106] | 2017 | SiFive | 28 nm | ~30 mm2 |
SPARC64 XII (12-core 64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 5,450,000,000[107] | 2017 | Fujitsu | 20 nm | 795 mm2 |
Apple A10X Fusion (hexa-core 64/32-bit ARM64 "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | 4,300,000,000[108] | 2017 | Apple | 10 nm | 96.40 mm2 |
Centriq 2400 (64/32-bit, SIMD, caches) | 18,000,000,000[109] | 2017 | Qualcomm | 10 nm | 398 mm2 |
32-core AMD Epyc (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 19,200,000,000 | 2017 | AMD | 14 nm | 768 mm2 |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 (octa-core ARM64 "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | ? | 2018 | Qualcomm | 10 nm | ? |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 (octa-core ARM64 "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | ? | 2018 | Qualcomm | 11 nm | ? |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 (octa-core ARM64 "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | ? | 2018 | Qualcomm | 7 nm | 73.27 mm2 |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx / SCX8180 (octa-core ARM64 "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | 8,500,000,000[110] | 2018 | Qualcomm | 7 nm | 112 mm2 |
Apple A12 Bionic (hexa-core ARM64 "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | 6,900,000,000[111][112] | 2018 | Apple | 7 nm | 83.27 mm2 |
HiSilicon Kirin 980 (octa-core ARM64 "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | 6,900,000,000[113] | 2018 | Huawei | 7 nm | 74.13 mm2 |
HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G | 10,300,000,000[114] | 2019 | Huawei | 7 nm | 113.31 mm2 |
HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G | 8,000,000,000[115] | 2019 | Huawei | 7 nm | 90.00 mm2 |
HiSilicon Kirin 710 (octa-core ARM64 "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | 5,500,000,000[116] | 2018 | Huawei | 12 nm | |
Apple A12X Bionic (octa-core 64/32-bit ARM64 "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | 10,000,000,000[117] | 2018 | Apple | 7 nm | 122 mm2 |
Apple A13 (iPhone 11 Pro) | 8,500,000,000[118][119] | 2019 | Apple | 7 nm | 98.48 mm2 |
Fujitsu A64FX (64/32-bit, SIMD, caches) | 8,786,000,000[120] | 2018[121] | Fujitsu | 7 nm | |
Tegra Xavier SoC (64/32-bit) | 9,000,000,000[122] | 2018 | Nvidia | 12 nm | 350 mm2 |
Samsung Exynos 9820 (octa-core ARM64 "mobile SoC", SIMD, caches) | ? | 2019 | Samsung | 8 nm | 127 mm2 |
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (64-bit, SIMD, caches, I/O die) | 5,990,000,000[123][d] | 2019 | AMD | 7&12 nm (TSMC) | 199 (74+125) mm2 |
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X (64-bit, SIMD, caches, I/O die) | 9,890,000,000[1][2] | 2019 | AMD | 7 & 12 nm (TSMC) | 273 mm2 |
AMD Epyc Rome (64-bit, SIMD, caches) | 39,540,000,000[1][2] | 2019 | AMD | 7 & 12 nm (TSMC) | 1088 mm2 |
AWS Graviton2 (64-bit, 64-core ARM-based, SIMD, caches)[124][125] | 30,000,000,000 | 2019 | Amazon | 7 nm |
A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the building of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display.
The designer refers to the technology company that designs the logic of the integrated circuit chip (such as Nvidia and AMD). The manufacturer refers to the semiconductor company that fabricates the chip using its semiconductor manufacturing process at a foundry (such as TSMC and Samsung Semiconductor). The transistor count in a chip is dependent on a manufacturer's fabrication process, with smaller semiconductor nodes typically enabling higher transistor density and thus higher transistor counts.
The random-access memory (RAM) that comes with GPUs (such as VRAM, SGRAM or HBM) greatly increase the total transistor count, with the memory typically accounting for the majority of transistors in a graphics card. For example, Nvidia's Tesla P100 has 15 billion FinFETs (16 nm) in the GPU in addition to 16 GB of HBM2 memory, totaling about 150 billion MOSFETs on the graphics card.[126] The following table does not include the memory. For memory transistor counts, see the Memory section below.
Processor | MOS transistor count | Date of introduction | Designer(s) | Manufacturer(s) | MOS process | Area | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
µPD7220 GDC | 40,000 | 1982 | NEC | NEC | 5,000 nm | [127] | |
ARTC HD63484 | 60,000 | 1984 | Hitachi | Hitachi | [128] | ||
YM7101 VDP | 100,000 | 1988 | Sega | Yamaha | [129] | ||
Tom & Jerry | 750,000 | 1993 | Flare | IBM | [129] | ||
VDP1 | 1,000,000 | 1994 | Sega | Hitachi | 500 nm | [130][131] | |
Sony GPU | 1,000,000 | 1994 | Toshiba | LSI | 500 nm | [132][133][134] | |
NV1 | 1,000,000 | 1995 | Nvidia, Sega | SGS | 500 nm | 90 mm2 | [130] |
Reality Coprocessor | 2,600,000 | 1996 | SGI | NEC | 350 nm | 81 mm2 | [135] |
PowerVR | 1,200,000 | 1996 | VideoLogic | NEC | 350 nm | [136] | |
Voodoo Graphics | 1,000,000 | 1996 | 3dfx | TSMC | 500 nm | [137][138] | |
Voodoo Rush | 1,000,000 | 1997 | 3dfx | TSMC | 500 nm | [137][138] | |
NV3 | 3,500,000 | 1997 | Nvidia | SGS, TSMC | 350 nm | 90 mm2 | [139][140] |
PowerVR2 CLX2 | 10,000,000 | 1998 | VideoLogic | NEC | 250 nm | 116 mm2 | [55][141][142][57] |
i740 | 3,500,000 | 1998 | Intel, Real3D | Real3D | 350 nm | [137][138] | |
Voodoo 2 | 4,000,000 | 1998 | 3dfx | TSMC | 350 nm | ||
Voodoo Rush | 4,000,000 | 1998 | 3dfx | TSMC | 350 nm | ||
Riva TNT | 7,000,000 | 1998 | Nvidia | TSMC | 350 nm | [137][140] | |
PowerVR2 PMX1 | 6,000,000 | 1999 | VideoLogic | NEC | 250 nm | [143] | |
Rage 128 | 8,000,000 | 1999 | ATI | TSMC, UMC | 250 nm | 70 mm2 | [138] |
Voodoo 3 | 8,100,000 | 1999 | 3dfx | TSMC | 250 nm | [144] | |
Graphics Synthesizer | 43,000,000 | 1999 | Sony, Toshiba | Sony, Toshiba | 180 nm | 279 mm2 | [62][60][59][61] |
NV5 | 15,000,000 | 1999 | Nvidia | TSMC | 250 nm | [138] | |
NV10 | 17,000,000 | 1999 | Nvidia | TSMC | 220 nm | 111 mm2 | [145][140] |
Voodoo 4 | 14,000,000 | 2000 | 3dfx | TSMC | 220 nm | [137][138] | |
NV11 | 20,000,000 | 2000 | Nvidia | TSMC | 180 nm | 65 mm2 | [138] |
NV15 | 25,000,000 | 2000 | Nvidia | TSMC | 180 nm | 81 mm2 | [138] |
Voodoo 5 | 28,000,000 | 2000 | 3dfx | TSMC | 220 nm | [137][138] | |
R100 | 30,000,000 | 2000 | ATI | TSMC | 180 nm | 97 mm2 | [138] |
Flipper | 51,000,000 | 2000 | ArtX | NEC | 180 nm | 106 mm2 | [62][146] |
PowerVR3 KYRO | 14,000,000 | 2001 | Imagination | ST | 250 nm | [137][138] | |
PowerVR3 KYRO II | 15,000,000 | 2001 | Imagination | ST | 180 nm | ||
NV2A | 60,000,000 | 2001 | Nvidia | TSMC | 150 nm | [137][147] | |
NV20 | 57,000,000 | 2001 | Nvidia | TSMC | 150 nm | 128 mm2 | [138] |
R200 | 60,000,000 | 2001 | ATI | TSMC | 150 nm | 68 mm2 | |
NV25 | 63,000,000 | 2002 | Nvidia | TSMC | 150 nm | 142 mm2 | |
R300 | 107,000,000 | 2002 | ATI | TSMC | 150 nm | 218 mm2 | |
R360 | 117,000,000 | 2003 | ATI | TSMC | 150 nm | 218 mm2 | |
NV38 | 135,000,000 | 2003 | Nvidia | TSMC | 130 nm | 207 mm2 | |
R480 | 160,000,000 | 2004 | ATI | TSMC | 130 nm | 297 mm2 | |
NV40 | 222,000,000 | 2004 | Nvidia | IBM | 130 nm | 305 mm2 | |
Xenos | 232,000,000 | 2005 | ATI | TSMC | 90 nm | 182 mm2 | [148][149] |
RSX Reality Synthesizer | 300,000,000 | 2005 | Nvidia, Sony | Sony | 90 nm | 186 mm2 | [150][151] |
G70 | 303,000,000 | 2005 | Nvidia | TSMC, Chartered | 110 nm | 333 mm2 | [138] |
R520 | 321,000,000 | 2005 | ATI | TSMC | 90 nm | 288 mm2 | |
R580 | 384,000,000 | 2006 | ATI | TSMC | 90 nm | 352 mm2 | |
G80 | 681,000,000 | 2006 | Nvidia | TSMC | 90 nm | 480 mm2 | |
G86 Tesla | 210,000,000 | 2007 | Nvidia | TSMC | 80 nm | 127 mm2 | |
G84 Tesla | 289,000,000 | 2007 | Nvidia | TSMC | 80 nm | 169 mm2 | |
R600 | 700,000,000 | 2007 | ATI | TSMC | 80 nm | 420 mm2 | |
G92 | 754,000,000 | 2007 | Nvidia | TSMC, UMC | 65 nm | 324 mm2 | |
G98 Tesla | 210,000,000 | 2008 | Nvidia | TSMC | 65 nm | 86 mm2 | |
RV710 | 242,000,000 | 2008 | ATI | TSMC | 55 nm | 73 mm2 | |
G96 Tesla | 314,000,000 | 2008 | Nvidia | TSMC | 55 nm | 121 mm2 | |
G94 Tesla | 505,000,000 | 2008 | Nvidia | TSMC | 65 nm | 240 mm2 | |
RV730 | 514,000,000 | 2008 | ATI | TSMC | 55 nm | 146 mm2 | |
RV670 | 666,000,000 | 2008 | ATI | TSMC | 55 nm | 192 mm2 | |
RV770 | 956,000,000 | 2008 | ATI | TSMC | 55 nm | 256 mm2 | |
RV790 | 959,000,000 | 2008 | ATI | TSMC | 55 nm | 282 mm2 | [152][138] |
GT200b Tesla | 1,400,000,000 | 2008 | Nvidia | TSMC, UMC | 55 nm | 470 mm2 | [138] |
GT200 Tesla | 1,400,000,000 | 2008 | Nvidia | TSMC | 65 nm | 576 mm2 | [153][138] |
GT218 Tesla | 260,000,000 | 2009 | Nvidia | TSMC | 40 nm | 57 mm2 | [138] |
GT216 Tesla | 486,000,000 | 2009 | Nvidia | TSMC | 40 nm | 100 mm2 | |
GT215 Tesla | 727,000,000 | 2009 | Nvidia | TSMC | 40 nm | 144 mm2 | |
RV740 | 826,000,000 | 2009 | ATI | TSMC | 40 nm | 137 mm2 | |
Juniper RV840 | 1,040,000,000 | 2009 | ATI | TSMC | 40 nm | 166 mm2 | |
Cypress RV870 | 2,154,000,000 | 2009 | ATI | TSMC | 40 nm | 334 mm2 | [154] |
Cedar RV810 | 292,000,000 | 2010 | AMD (formerly ATI) | TSMC | 40 nm | 59 mm2 | [138] |
Redwood RV830 | 627,000,000 | 2010 | AMD | TSMC | 40 nm | 104 mm2 | |
GF106 Fermi | 1,170,000,000 | 2010 | Nvidia | TSMC | 40 nm | 238 mm2 | |
Barts RV940 | 1,700,000,000 | 2010 | AMD | TSMC | 40 nm | 255 mm2 | |
Cayman RV970 | 2,640,000,000 | 2010 | AMD | TSMC | 40 nm | 389 mm2 | |
GF100 Fermi | 3,200,000,000 | March 2010 | Nvidia | TSMC | 40 nm | 526 mm2 | [155] |
GF110 Fermi | 3,000,000,000 | November 2010 | Nvidia | TSMC | 40 nm | 520 mm2 | [155] |
GF119 Fermi | 292,000,000 | 2011 | Nvidia | TSMC | 40 nm | 79 mm2 | [138] |
Caicos RV910 | 370,000,000 | 2011 | AMD | TSMC | 40 nm | 67 mm2 | |
GF108 Fermi | 585,000,000 | 2011 | Nvidia | TSMC | 40 nm | 116 mm2 | |
Turks RV930 | 716,000,000 | 2011 | AMD | TSMC | 40 nm | 118 mm2 | |
GF104 Fermi | 1,950,000,000 | 2011 | Nvidia | TSMC | 40 nm | 332 mm2 | |
Tahiti | 4,312,711,873 | 2011 | AMD | TSMC | 28 nm | 365 mm2 | [156] |
GK107 Kepler | 1,270,000,000 | 2012 | Nvidia | TSMC | 28 nm | 118 mm2 | [138] |
Cape Verde | 1,500,000,000 | 2012 | AMD | TSMC | 28 nm | 123 mm2 | |
GK106 Kepler | 2,540,000,000 | 2012 | Nvidia | TSMC | 28 nm | 221 mm2 | |
Pitcairn | 2,800,000,000 | 2012 | AMD | TSMC | 28 nm | 212 mm2 | |
GK104 Kepler | 3,540,000,000 | 2012 | Nvidia | TSMC | 28 nm | 294 mm2 | [157] |
GK110 Kepler | 7,080,000,000 | 2012 | Nvidia | TSMC | 28 nm | 561 mm2 | [158][159] |
Oland | 1,040,000,000 | 2013 | AMD | TSMC | 28 nm | 90 mm2 | [138] |
Bonaire | 2,080,000,000 | 2013 | AMD | TSMC | 28 nm | 160 mm2 | |
Durango (Xbox One) | 5,000,000,000 | 2013 | AMD | TSMC | 28 nm | 363 mm2 | [160] |
Liverpool (PlayStation 4) | Unknown | 2013 | AMD | TSMC | 28 nm | 348 mm2 | [161] |
Hawaii | 6,300,000,000 | 2013 | AMD | TSMC | 28 nm | 438 mm2 | [138] |
GM107 Maxwell | 1,870,000,000 | 2014 | Nvidia | TSMC | 28 nm | 148 mm2 | |
GM206 Maxwell | 2,940,000,000 | 2014 | Nvidia | TSMC | 28 nm | 228 mm2 | |
Tonga | 5,000,000,000 | 2014 | AMD | TSMC, GlobalFoundries | 28 nm | 366 mm2 | |
GM204 Maxwell | 5,200,000,000 | 2014 | Nvidia | TSMC | 28 nm | 398 mm2 | |
GM200 Maxwell | 8,000,000,000 | 2015 | Nvidia | TSMC | 28 nm | 601 mm2 | |
Fiji | 8,900,000,000 | 2015 | AMD | TSMC | 28 nm | 596 mm2 | |
Polaris 11 "Baffin" | 3,000,000,000 | 2016 | AMD | Samsung, GlobalFoundries | 14 nm | 123 mm2 | [138][162] |
GP108 Pascal | 4,400,000,000 | 2016 | Nvidia | TSMC | 16 nm | 200 mm2 | [138] |
Durango 2 (Xbox One S) | 5,000,000,000 | 2016 | AMD | TSMC | 16 nm | 240 mm2 | [163] |
Neo (PlayStation 4 Pro) | 5,700,000,000 | 2016 | AMD | TSMC | 16 nm | 325 mm2 | [164] |
Polaris 10 "Ellesmere" | 5,700,000,000 | 2016 | AMD | Samsung, GlobalFoundries | 14 nm | 232 mm2 | [165] |
GP104 Pascal | 7,200,000,000 | 2016 | Nvidia | TSMC | 16 nm | 314 mm2 | [138] |
GP100 Pascal | 15,300,000,000 | 2016 | Nvidia | TSMC, Samsung | 16 nm | 610 mm2 | [166] |
GP108 Pascal | 1,850,000,000 | 2017 | Nvidia | Samsung | 14 nm | 74 mm2 | [138] |
Polaris 12 "Lexa" | 2,200,000,000 | 2017 | AMD | Samsung, GlobalFoundries | 14 nm | 101 mm2 | [138][162] |
GP107 Pascal | 3,300,000,000 | 2017 | Nvidia | Samsung | 14 nm | 132 mm2 | [138] |
Scorpio (Xbox One X) | 7,000,000,000 | 2017 | AMD | TSMC | 16 nm | 359 mm2 | [167] |
GP102 Pascal | 11,800,000,000 | 2017 | Nvidia | TSMC, Samsung | 16 nm | 471 mm2 | [138] |
Vega 10 | 12,500,000,000 | 2017 | AMD | Samsung, GlobalFoundries | 14 nm | 484 mm2 | [168] |
GV100 Volta | 21,100,000,000 | 2017 | Nvidia | TSMC | 12 nm | 815 mm2 | [3] |
TU106 Turing | 10,800,000,000 | 2018 | Nvidia | TSMC | 12 nm | 445 mm2 | |
Vega 20 | 13,230,000,000 | 2018 | AMD | TSMC | 7 nm | 331 mm2 | [138] |
TU104 Turing | 13,600,000,000 | 2018 | Nvidia | TSMC | 12 nm | 545 mm2 | |
TU102 Turing | 18,600,000,000 | 2018 | Nvidia | TSMC | 12 nm | 754 mm2 | [169] |
TU117 Turing | 4,700,000,000 | 2019 | Nvidia | TSMC | 12 nm | 200 mm2 | [170] |
TU116 Turing | 6,600,000,000 | 2019 | Nvidia | TSMC | 12 nm | 284 mm2 | [171] |
Navi 14 | 6,400,000,000 | 2019 | AMD | TSMC | 7 nm | 158 mm2 | [172] |
Navi 10 | 10,300,000,000 | 2019 | AMD | TSMC | 7 nm | 251 mm2 | [173] |
A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturing.
FPGA | MOS transistor count | Date of introduction | Designer | Manufacturer | MOS process | Area | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Virtex | 70,000,000 | 1997 | Xilinx | ||||
Virtex-E | 200,000,000 | 1998 | Xilinx | ||||
Virtex-II | 350,000,000 | 2000 | Xilinx | 130 nm | |||
Virtex-II PRO | 430,000,000 | 2002 | Xilinx | ||||
Virtex-4 | 1,000,000,000 | 2004 | Xilinx | 90 nm | |||
Virtex-5 | 1,100,000,000 | 2006 | Xilinx | TSMC | 65 nm | [174] | |
Stratix IV | 2,500,000,000 | 2008 | Altera | TSMC | 40 nm | [175] | |
Stratix V | 3,800,000,000 | 2011 | Altera | TSMC | 28 nm | [176] | |
Arria 10 | 5,300,000,000 | 2014 | Altera | TSMC | 20 nm | [177] | |
Virtex-7 2000T | 6,800,000,000 | 2011 | Xilinx | TSMC | 28 nm | [178] | |
Stratix 10 SX 2800 | 17,000,000,000 | TBD | Intel | Intel | 14 nm | 560 mm2 | [179][180] |
Virtex-Ultrascale VU440 | 20,000,000,000 | Q1 2015 | Xilinx | TSMC | 20 nm | [181][182] | |
Virtex-Ultrascale+ VU19P | 35,000,000,000 | 2020 | Xilinx | TSMC | 16 nm | 900 mm2 [e] | [183][184][185] |
Versal VC1902 | 37,000,000,000 | 2H 2019 | Xilinx | TSMC | 7 nm | [186][187][188] | |
Stratix 10 GX 10M | 43,300,000,000 | Q4 2019 | Intel | Intel | 14 nm | 1400 mm2 [e] | [189][190] |
See also: Random-access memory § Timeline, flash memory § Timeline, and read-only memory § Timeline
Semiconductor memory is an electronic data storage device, often used as computer memory, implemented on integrated circuits. Nearly all semiconductor memory since the 1970s have used MOSFETs (MOS transistors), replacing earlier bipolar junction transistors. There are two major types of semiconductor memory, random-access memory (RAM) and non-volatile memory (NVM). In turn, there are two major RAM types, dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) and static random-access memory (SRAM), as well as two major NVM types, flash memory and read-only memory (ROM).
Typical CMOS SRAM consists of six transistors per cell. For DRAM, 1T1C, which means one transistor and one capacitor structure, is common. Capacitor charged or not is used to store 1 or 0. For flash memory, the data is stored in floating gate, and the resistance of the transistor is sensed to interpret the data stored. Depending on how fine scale the resistance could be separated, one transistor could store up to 3-bits, meaning eight distinctive level of resistance possible per transistor. However, the fine the scale comes with cost of repeatability therefore reliability. Typically, low grade 2-bits MLC flash is used for flash drives, so a 16 GB flash drive contains roughly 64 billion transistors.
For SRAM chips, six-transistor cells (six transistors per bit) was the standard.[191] DRAM chips during the early 1970s had three-transistor cells (three transistors per bit), before single-transistor cells (one transistor per bit) became standard since the era of 4 Kb DRAM in the mid-1970s.[192][193] In single-level flash memory, each cell contains one floating-gate MOSFET (one transistor per bit),[194] whereas multi-level flash contains 2, 3 or 4 bits per transistor.
Flash memory chips are commonly stacked up in layers, up to 128-layer in production,[195] and 136-layer managed,[196] and available in end-user devices up to 69-layer from manufacturers.
Chip name | Capacity (bits) | RAM type | Transistor count | Date of introduction | Manufacturer(s) | MOS process | Area | Ref |
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N/A | 1-bit | SRAM (cell) | 6 | 1963 | Fairchild | N/A | N/A | [197] |
N/A | 1-bit | DRAM (cell) | 1 | 1965 | Toshiba | N/A | N/A | [198][199] |
? | 8-bit | SRAM (bipolar) | 48 | 1965 | SDS, Signetics | ? | ? | [197] |
SP95 | 16-bit | SRAM (bipolar) | 80 | 1965 | IBM | ? | ? | [200] |
TMC3162 | 16-bit | SRAM (TTL) | 96 | 1966 | Transitron | N/A | ? | [193] |
? | ? | SRAM (MOS) | ? | 1966 | NEC | ? | ? | [192] |
256-bit | DRAM (IC) | 256 | 1968 | Fairchild | ? | ? | [193] | |
64-bit | SRAM (PMOS) | 384 | 1968 | Fairchild | ? | ? | [192] | |
144-bit | SRAM (NMOS) | 864 | 1968 | NEC | ||||
1101 | 256-bit | SRAM (PMOS) | 1,536 | 1969 | Intel | 12,000 nm | ? | [201][202][203] |
1102 | 1 Kb | DRAM (PMOS) | 3,072 | 1970 | Intel, Honeywell | ? | ? | [192] |
1103 | 1 Kb | DRAM (PMOS) | 3,072 | 1970 | Intel | 8,000 nm | 10 mm2 | [204][191][205][193] |
μPD403 | 1 Kb | DRAM (NMOS) | 3,072 | 1971 | NEC | ? | ? | [206] |
? | 2 Kb | DRAM (PMOS) | 6,144 | 1971 | General Instrument | ? | 12.7 mm2 | [207] |
2102 | 1 Kb | SRAM (NMOS) | 6,144 | 1972 | Intel | ? | ? | [201][208] |
? | 8 Kb | DRAM (PMOS) | 8,192 | 1973 | IBM | ? | 18.8 mm2 | [207] |
5101 | 1 Kb | SRAM (CMOS) | 6,144 | 1974 | Intel | ? | ? | [201] |
2116 | 16 Kb | DRAM (NMOS) | 16,384 | 1975 | Intel | ? | ? | [209][193] |
2114 | 4 Kb | SRAM (NMOS) | 24,576 | 1976 | Intel | ? | ? | [201][210] |
? | 4 Kb | SRAM (CMOS) | 24,576 | 1977 | Toshiba | ? | ? | [202] |
64 Kb | DRAM (NMOS) | 65,536 | 1977 | NTT | ? | 35.4 mm2 | [207] | |
DRAM (VMOS) | 65,536 | 1979 | Siemens | ? | 25.2 mm2 | [207] | ||
16 Kb | SRAM (CMOS) | 98,304 | 1980 | Hitachi, Toshiba | ? | ? | [211] | |
256 Kb | DRAM (NMOS) | 262,144 | 1980 | NEC | 1,500 nm | 41.6 mm2 | [207] | |
NTT | 1,000 nm | 34.4 mm2 | [207] | |||||
64 Kb | SRAM (CMOS) | 393,216 | 1980 | Matsushita | ? | ? | [211] | |
288 Kb | DRAM | 294,912 | 1981 | IBM | ? | 25 mm2 | [212] | |
64 Kb | SRAM (NMOS) | 393,216 | 1982 | Intel | 1,500 nm | ? | [211] | |
256 Kb | SRAM (CMOS) | 1,572,864 | 1984 | Toshiba | 1,200 nm | ? | [211][203] | |
8 Mb | DRAM | 8,388,608 | January 5, 1984 | Hitachi | ? | ? | [213][214] | |
16 Mb | DRAM (CMOS) | 16,777,216 | 1987 | NTT | 700 nm | 148 mm2 | [207] | |
4 Mb | SRAM (CMOS) | 25,165,824 | 1990 | NEC, Toshiba, Hitachi, Mitsubishi | ? | ? | [211] | |
64 Mb | DRAM (CMOS) | 67,108,864 | 1991 | Matsushita, Mitsubishi, Fujitsu, Toshiba | 400 nm | |||
KM48SL2000 | 16 Mb | SDRAM | 16,777,216 | 1992 | Samsung | ? | ? | [215][216] |
? | 16 Mb | SRAM (CMOS) | 100,663,296 | 1992 | Fujitsu, NEC | 400 nm | ? | [211] |
256 Mb | DRAM (CMOS) | 268,435,456 | 1993 | Hitachi, NEC | 250 nm | |||
1 Gb | DRAM | 1,073,741,824 | January 9, 1995 | NEC | 250 nm | ? | [217][218] | |
Hitachi | 160 nm | ? | ||||||
SDRAM | 1,073,741,824 | 1996 | Mitsubishi | 150 nm | ? | [211] | ||
SDRAM (SOI) | 1,073,741,824 | 1997 | Hyundai | ? | ? | [219] | ||
4 Gb | DRAM (4-bit) | 1,073,741,824 | 1997 | NEC | 150 nm | ? | [211] | |
DRAM | 4,294,967,296 | 1998 | Hyundai | ? | ? | [219] | ||
8 Gb | SDRAM (DDR3) | 8,589,934,592 | April 2008 | Samsung | 50 nm | ? | [220] | |
16 Gb | SDRAM (DDR3) | 17,179,869,184 | 2008 | |||||
32 Gb | SDRAM (HBM2) | 34,359,738,368 | 2016 | Samsung | 20 nm | ? | [221] | |
64 Gb | SDRAM (HBM2) | 68,719,476,736 | 2017 | |||||
128 Gb | SDRAM (DDR4) | 137,438,953,472 | 2018 | Samsung | 10 nm | ? | [222] | |
? | RRAM[223] (3DSoC)[224] | ? | 2019 | Skywater[225] | 90 nm | ? |
Chip name | Capacity (bits) | Flash type | FGMOS transistor count | Date of introduction | Manufacturer(s) | MOS process | Area | Ref |
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? | 256 Kb | NOR | 262,144 | 1985 | Toshiba | 2,000 nm | ? | [211] |
1 Mb | NOR | 1,048,576 | 1989 | Seeq, Intel | ? | |||
4 Mb | NAND | 4,194,304 | 1989 | Toshiba | 1,000 nm | |||
16 Mb | NOR | 16,777,216 | 1991 | Mitsubishi | 600 nm | |||
DD28F032SA | 32 Mb | NOR | 33,554,432 | 1993 | Intel | ? | 280 mm2 | [201][226] |
? | 64 Mb | NOR | 67,108,864 | 1994 | NEC | 400 nm | ? | [211] |
NAND | 67,108,864 | 1996 | Hitachi | |||||
128 Mb | NAND | 134,217,728 | 1996 | Samsung, Hitachi | ? | |||
256 Mb | NAND | 268,435,456 | 1999 | Hitachi, Toshiba | 250 nm | |||
512 Mb | NAND | 536,870,912 | 2000 | Toshiba | ? | ? | [227] | |
1 Gb | 2-bit NAND | 536,870,912 | 2001 | Samsung | ? | ? | [211] | |
Toshiba, SanDisk | 160 nm | ? | [228] | |||||
2 Gb | NAND | 2,147,483,648 | 2002 | Samsung, Toshiba | ? | ? | [229][230] | |
8 Gb | NAND | 8,589,934,592 | 2004 | Samsung | 60 nm | ? | [229] | |
16 Gb | NAND | 17,179,869,184 | 2005 | Samsung | 50 nm | ? | [231] | |
32 Gb | NAND | 34,359,738,368 | 2006 | Samsung | 40 nm | |||
THGAM | 128 Gb | Stacked NAND | 128,000,000,000 | April 2007 | Toshiba | 56 nm | 252 mm2 | [232] |
THGBM | 256 Gb | Stacked NAND | 256,000,000,000 | 2008 | Toshiba | 43 nm | 353 mm2 | [233] |
THGBM2 | 1 Tb | Stacked 4-bit NAND | 256,000,000,000 | 2010 | Toshiba | 32 nm | 374 mm2 | [234] |
KLMCG8GE4A | 512 Gb | Stacked 2-bit NAND | 256,000,000,000 | 2011 | Samsung | ? | 192 mm2 | [235] |
KLUFG8R1EM | 4 Tb | Stacked 3-bit V-NAND | 1,365,333,333,504 | 2017 | Samsung | ? | 150 mm2 | [236] |
eUFS (1 TB) | 8 Tb | Stacked 4-bit V-NAND | 2,048,000,000,000 | 2019 | Samsung | ? | 150 mm2 | [4][237] |
Chip name | Capacity (bits) | ROM type | Transistor count | Date of introduction | Manufacturer(s) | MOS process | Area | Ref |
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? | ? | PROM | ? | 1956 | Arma | N/A | ? | [238][239] |
1 Kb | ROM (MOS) | 1,024 | 1965 | General Microelectronics | ? | ? | [240] | |
3301 | 1 Kb | ROM (bipolar) | 1,024 | 1969 | Intel | N/A | ? | [240] |
1702 | 2 Kb | EPROM (MOS) | 2,048 | 1971 | Intel | ? | 15 mm2 | [241] |
? | 4 Kb | ROM (MOS) | 4,096 | 1974 | AMD, General Instrument | ? | ? | [240] |
2708 | 8 Kb | EPROM (MOS) | 8,192 | 1975 | Intel | ? | ? | [201] |
? | 2 Kb | EEPROM (MOS) | 2,048 | 1976 | Toshiba | ? | ? | [242] |
µCOM-43 ROM | 16 Kb | PROM (PMOS) | 16,000 | 1977 | NEC | ? | ? | [243] |
2716 | 16 Kb | EPROM (TTL) | 16,384 | 1977 | Intel | N/A | ? | [204][244] |
EA8316F | 16 Kb | ROM (NMOS) | 16,384 | 1978 | Electronic Arrays | ? | 436 mm2 | [240][245] |
2732 | 32 Kb | EPROM | 32,768 | 1978 | Intel | ? | ? | [201] |
2364 | 64 Kb | ROM | 65,536 | 1978 | Intel | ? | ? | [246] |
2764 | 64 Kb | EPROM | 65,536 | 1981 | Intel | 3,500 nm | ? | [201][211] |
27128 | 128 Kb | EPROM | 131,072 | 1982 | Intel | ? | ||
27256 | 256 Kb | EPROM (HMOS) | 262,144 | 1983 | Intel | ? | ? | [201][247] |
? | 256 Kb | EPROM (CMOS) | 262,144 | 1983 | Fujitsu | ? | ? | [248] |
512 Kb | EPROM (NMOS) | 524,288 | 1984 | AMD | 1,700 nm | ? | [211] | |
27512 | 512 Kb | EPROM (HMOS) | 524,288 | 1984 | Intel | ? | ? | [201][249] |
? | 1 Mb | EPROM (CMOS) | 1,048,576 | 1984 | NEC | 1,200 nm | ? | [211] |
4 Mb | EPROM (CMOS) | 4,194,304 | 1987 | Toshiba | 800 nm | |||
16 Mb | EPROM (CMOS) | 16,777,216 | 1990 | NEC | 600 nm | |||
MROM | 16,777,216 | 1995 | AKM, Hitachi | ? | ? | [218] |
Before transistors were invented, relays were used in early computers. The world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer,[250] the 1941 Z3 22-bit word length computer, had 2,600 relays, and operated at a clock frequency of about 4–5 Hz. The 1940 Complex Number Computer had fewer than 500 relays,[251] but it was not fully programmable.
The second generation of computers were transistor computers that featured boards filled with discrete transistors and magnetic memory cores. The experimental 1953 48-bit Transistor Computer, developed at the University of Manchester, is widely believed to be the first transistor computer to come into operation anywhere in the world (the prototype had 92 point-contact transistors and 550 diodes).[252] A later version the 1955 machine had a total of 250 junction transistors and 1300 point diodes. The Computer also used a small number of tubes in its clock generator, so it was not the first fully transistorized. The ETL Mark III, developed at the Electrotechnical Laboratory in 1956, may have been the first transistor-based electronic computer using the stored program method. It had about "130 point-contact transistors and about 1,800 germanium diodes were used for logic elements, and these were housed on 300 plug-in packages which could be slipped in and out.[253] The 1958 decimal architecture IBM 7070 was the first transistor computer to be fully programmable. It had about 30,000 alloy-junction germanium transistors and 22,000 germanium diodes, on approximately 14,000 Standard Modular System (SMS) cards. The 1959 MOBIDIC, short for "MOBIle DIgital Computer", at 12,000 pounds (6.0 short tons) mounted in the trailer of a semi-trailer truck, was a transistorized computer for battlefield data.
The third generation of computers used integrated circuits (ICs).[254] The 1962 15-bit Apollo Guidance Computer used "about 4,000 "Type-G" (3-input NOR gate) circuits" for about 12,000 transistors plus 32,000 resistors.[255] The first commercial IC-based computer was the IBM System/360 in 1964.[254] The 1965 12-bit PDP-8 CPU had 1409 transistors and over 10,000 diodes. It was not a microprocessor, as it used discrete transistors on many cards; but later microprocessors, such as the Intersil 6100 reimplemented it, see below.[256]
The next generation of computers were the microcomputers, also known as home computers or personal computers (PC), which used MOS microprocessors, in the 1970s. This list includes early transistorized computers (second generation) and IC-based computers (third generation) from the 1950s and 1960s.
Computer | Transistor count | Year | Manufacturer | Notes | Ref |
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Transistor Computer | 92 | 1953 | University of Manchester | Point-contact transistors | [252] |
TRADIC | 700 | 1954 | Bell Labs | Point-contact transistors | [252] |
Transistor Computer (full size) | 250 | 1955 | University of Manchester | Discrete point-contact transistors | [252] |
ETL Mark III | 130 | 1956 | Electrotechnical Laboratory | Point-contact transistors | [252][253] |
Metrovick 950 | 200 | 1956 | Metropolitan-Vickers | Discrete junction transistors | |
NEC NEAC-2201 | 600 | 1958 | NEC | Germanium transistors | [257] |
Hitachi MARS-1 | 1,000 | 1958 | Hitachi | [258] | |
IBM 7070 | 30,000 | 1958 | IBM | Alloy-junction germanium transistors | [259] |
Matsushita MADIC-I | 400 | 1959 | Matsushita | Bipolar transistors | [260] |
NEC NEAC-2203 | 2,579 | 1959 | NEC | [261] | |
Toshiba TOSBAC-2100 | 5,000 | 1959 | Toshiba | [262] | |
IBM 7090 | 50,000 | 1959 | IBM | Discrete germanium transistors | [263] |
PDP-1 | 2,700 | 1959 | Digital Equipment Corporation | Discrete transistors | |
Mitsubishi MELCOM 1101 | 3,500 | 1960 | Mitsubishi | Germanium transistors | [264] |
M18 FADAC | 1,600 | 1960 | Autonetics | Discrete transistors | |
D-17B | 1,521 | 1962 | Autonetics | Discrete transistors | |
NEC NEAC-L2 | 16,000 | 1964 | NEC | Ge transistors | [265] |
IBM System/360 | ? | 1964 | IBM | Integrated circuits | |
PDP-8/I | 1409 | 1968 | Digital Equipment Corporation | 74 series TTL circuits | |
Apollo Guidance Computer Block II | 12,300 | 1966 | Raytheon / MIT Instrumentation Laboratory | 4,100 ICs, each containing a 3-transistor, 3-input NOR gate |
Transistor count for generic logic functions is based on static CMOS implementation.[266]
Function | Transistor count | Ref |
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NOT | 2 | |
Buffer | 4 | |
NAND 2-input | 4 | |
NOR 2-input | 4 | |
AND 2-input | 6 | |
OR 2-input | 6 | |
NAND 3-input | 6 | |
NOR 3-input | 6 | |
XOR 2-input | 6 | |
XNOR 2-input | 8 | |
MUX 2-input with TG | 6 | |
MUX 4-input with TG | 18 | |
NOT MUX 2-input | 8 | |
MUX 4-input | 24 | |
1-bit adder full | 28 | |
1-bit adder–subtractor | 48 | |
AND-OR-INVERT | 6 | [267] |
Latch, D gated | 8 | |
Flip-flop, edge triggered dynamic D with reset | 12 | |
8-bit multiplier | 3,000 | |
16-bit multiplier | 9,000 | |
32-bit multiplier | 21,000 | [268] |
small-scale integration | 2–100 | [269] |
medium-scale integration | 100–500 | [269] |
large-scale integration | 500–20,000 | [269] |
very-large-scale integration | 20,000–1,000,000 | [269] |
ultra-large scale integration | >1,000,000 |
Historically, each processing element in earlier parallel systems—like all CPUs of that time—was a serial computer built out of multiple chips. As transistor counts per chip increases, each processing element could be built out of fewer chips, and then later each multi-core processor chip could contain more processing elements.[270]
Goodyear MPP: (1983?) 8 pixel processors per chip, 3,000 to 8,000 transistors per chip.[270]
Brunel University Scape (single-chip array-processing element): (1983) 256 pixel processors per chip, 120,000 to 140,000 transistors per chip.[270]
Cell Broadband Engine: (2006) with 9 cores per chip, had 234 million transistors per chip.[271]
Device type | Device name | Transistor count | Date of introduction | Designer(s) | Manufacturer(s) | MOS process | Area | Ref |
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Deep learning engine / IPU[f] | Colossus GC2 | 23,600,000,000 | 2018 | Graphcore | TSMC | 16 nm | ~800 mm2 | [272][273][better source needed] |
Deep learning engine / IPU | Wafer Scale Engine | 1,200,000,000,000 | 2019 | Cerebras | TSMC | 16 nm | 46,225 mm2 | [5][6][7][8] |
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The transistor density is the number of transistors that are fabricated per unit area, typically measured in terms of the number of transistors per square millimeter (mm2). The transistor density usually correlates with the gate length of a semiconductor node (also known as a semiconductor manufacturing process), typically measured in nanometers (nm). As of 2019, the semiconductor node with the highest transistor density is TSMC's 5 nanometer node, with 171.3 million transistors per square millimeter.[274]
Further information: List of semiconductor scale examples
Node name | Transistor density (transistors/mm2) | Production year | Process | MOSFET | Manufacturer(s) | Ref |
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? | ? | 1960 | 20,000 nm | PMOS | Bell Labs | [275][276] |
? | ? | 1960 | 20,000 nm | NMOS | ||
? | ? | 1963 | ? | CMOS | Fairchild | [18] |
? | ? | 1964 | ? | PMOS | General Microelectronics | [277] |
? | ? | 1968 | 20,000 nm | CMOS | RCA | [278] |
? | ? | 1969 | 12,000 nm | PMOS | Intel | [211][203] |
? | ? | 1970 | 10,000 nm | CMOS | RCA | [278] |
? | 300 | 1970 | 8,000 nm | PMOS | Intel | [205][193] |
? | ? | 1971 | 10,000 nm | PMOS | Intel | [279] |
? | 480 | 1971 | ? | PMOS | General Instrument | [207] |
? | ? | 1973 | ? | NMOS | Texas Instruments | [207] |
? | 220 | 1973 | ? | NMOS | Mostek | [207] |
? | ? | 1973 | 7,500 nm | NMOS | NEC | [24][23] |
? | ? | 1973 | 6,000 nm | PMOS | Toshiba | [25][280] |
? | ? | 1976 | 5,000 nm | NMOS | Hitachi, Intel | [207] |
? | ? | 1976 | 5,000 nm | CMOS | RCA | |
? | ? | 1976 | 4,000 nm | NMOS | Zilog | |
? | ? | 1976 | 3,000 nm | NMOS | Intel | [281] |
? | 1,850 | 1977 | ? | NMOS | NTT | [207] |
? | ? | 1978 | 3,000 nm | CMOS | Hitachi | [282] |
? | ? | 1978 | 2,500 nm | NMOS | Texas Instruments | [207] |
? | ? | 1978 | 2,000 nm | NMOS | NEC, NTT | |
? | 2,600 | 1979 | ? | VMOS | Siemens | |
? | 7,280 | 1979 | 1,000 nm | NMOS | NTT | |
? | 7,620 | 1980 | 1,000 nm | NMOS | NTT | |
? | ? | 1983 | 2,000 nm | CMOS | Toshiba | [211] |
? | ? | 1983 | 1,500 nm | CMOS | Intel | [207] |
? | ? | 1983 | 1,200 nm | CMOS | Intel | |
? | ? | 1984 | 800 nm | CMOS | NTT | |
? | ? | 1987 | 700 nm | CMOS | Fujitsu | |
? | ? | 1989 | 600 nm | CMOS | Mitsubishi, NEC, Toshiba | [211] |
? | ? | 1989 | 500 nm | CMOS | Hitachi, Mitsubishi, NEC, Toshiba | |
? | ? | 1991 | 400 nm | CMOS | Matsushita, Mitsubishi, Fujitsu, Toshiba | |
? | ? | 1993 | 350 nm | CMOS | Sony | |
? | ? | 1993 | 250 nm | CMOS | Hitachi, NEC | |
3LM | 32,000 | 1994 | 350 nm | CMOS | NEC | [135] |
? | ? | 1995 | 160 nm | CMOS | Hitachi | [211] |
? | ? | 1996 | 150 nm | CMOS | Mitsubishi | |
TSMC 180 nm | ? | 1998 | 180 nm | CMOS | TSMC | [283] |
CS80 | ? | 1999 | 180 nm | CMOS | Fujitsu | [284] |
? | ? | 1999 | 180 nm | CMOS | Intel, Sony, Toshiba | [201][60] |
CS85 | ? | 1999 | 170 nm | CMOS | Fujitsu | [285] |
Samsung 140 nm | ? | 1999 | 140 nm | CMOS | Samsung | [211] |
? | ? | 2001 | 130 nm | CMOS | Fujitsu, Intel | [284][201] |
Samsung 100 nm | ? | 2001 | 100 nm | CMOS | Samsung | [211] |
? | ? | 2002 | 90 nm | CMOS | Sony, Toshiba, Samsung | [60][229] |
CS100 | ? | 2003 | 90 nm | CMOS | Fujitsu | [284] |
Intel 90 nm | 1,450,000 | 2004 | 90 nm | CMOS | Intel | [286][201] |
Samsung 80 nm | ? | 2004 | 80 nm | CMOS | Samsung | [287] |
? | ? | 2004 | 65 nm | CMOS | Fujitsu, Toshiba | [288] |
Samsung 60 nm | ? | 2004 | 60 nm | CMOS | Samsung | [229] |
TSMC 45 nm | ? | 2004 | 45 nm | CMOS | TSMC | |
Elpida 90 nm | ? | 2005 | 90 nm | CMOS | Elpida Memory | [289] |
CS200 | ? | 2005 | 65 nm | CMOS | Fujitsu | [290][284] |
Samsung 50 nm | ? | 2005 | 50 nm | CMOS | Samsung | [231] |
Intel 65 nm | 2,080,000 | 2006 | 65 nm | CMOS | Intel | [286] |
Samsung 40 nm | ? | 2006 | 40 nm | CMOS | Samsung | [231] |
Toshiba 56 nm | ? | 2007 | 56 nm | CMOS | Toshiba | [232] |
Matsushita 45 nm | ? | 2007 | 45 nm | CMOS | Matsushita | [70] |
Intel 45 nm | 3,300,000 | 2008 | 45 nm | CMOS | Intel | [291] |
Toshiba 43 nm | ? | 2008 | 43 nm | CMOS | Toshiba | [233] |
TSMC 40 nm | ? | 2008 | 40 nm | CMOS | TSMC | [292] |
Toshiba 32 nm | ? | 2009 | 32 nm | CMOS | Toshiba | [293] |
Intel 32 nm | 7,500,000 | 2010 | 32 nm | CMOS | Intel | [291] |
? | ? | 2010 | 20 nm | CMOS | Hynix, Samsung | [294][231] |
Intel 22 nm | 15,300,000 | 2012 | 22 nm | CMOS | Intel | [291] |
IMFT 20 nm | ? | 2012 | 20 nm | CMOS | IMFT | [295] |
Toshiba 19 nm | ? | 2012 | 19 nm | CMOS | Toshiba | |
Hynix 16 nm | ? | 2013 | 16 nm | FinFET | SK Hynix | [294] |
TSMC 16 nm | 28,880,000 | 2013 | 16 nm | FinFET | TSMC | [296][297] |
Samsung 10 nm | 51,820,000 | 2013 | 10 nm | FinFET | Samsung | [298][299] |
Intel 14 nm | 37,500,000 | 2014 | 14 nm | FinFET | Intel | [291] |
14LP | 32,940,000 | 2015 | 14 nm | FinFET | Samsung | [298] |
TSMC 10 nm | 52,510,000 | 2016 | 10 nm | FinFET | TSMC | [296][300] |
12LP | 36,710,000 | 2017 | 12 nm | FinFET | GlobalFoundries, Samsung | [162] |
N7FF | 96,500,000 | 2017 | 7 nm | FinFET | TSMC | [301][302][303] |
8LPP | 61,180,000 | 2018 | 8 nm | FinFET | Samsung | [298] |
7LPE | 95,300,000 | 2018 | 7 nm | FinFET | Samsung | [302] |
Intel 10 nm | 100,760,000 | 2018 | 10 nm | FinFET | Intel | [304] |
5LPE | 126,530,000 | 2018 | 5 nm | FinFET | Samsung | [305][306] |
N7FF+ | 113,900,000 | 2019 | 7 nm | FinFET | TSMC | [301][302] |
CLN5FF | 171,300,000 | 2019 | 5 nm | FinFET | TSMC | [274] |
TSMC 3 nm | ? | ? | 3 nm | ? | TSMC | [307] |
Samsung 3 nm | ? | ? | 3 nm | GAAFET | Samsung | [308] |