World's first 2 billion transistor chip

• Posted by sondreb on February 4, 2008
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If you read my predictions for 2008 and beyond and had a look at the Gizmodo video, then you might have noticed the last CPU on the video had 582,000,000 transistors. The Quad-Core Xeon processors.

Now we have entered 2008 and Intel have just launched their new Quad-Core named Tukwila. It's expected to arrive in the second half of the year and will be running at 2GHz and have 2 billion transistors.

Read more about it on BBC News: Chips pass two billion milestone.

Tukwila will be 65 nanometer based, while Intel is already producing new chips with 45 nanometer technology that you can buy today.

In other related news, Intel and Micron have developed the worlds fastest NAND Flash memory which has a read speed of 200 megabytes per seconds (MB/s) and 100 MB/s write speed. Let's just hope it hits the market quickly.

This could be useful for my recent new hobby of video editing (thanks to my wife for the lovely Sony HDR-HC5 that I received for Christmas).