Transistor: A transistor is an electronic switch or amplifier. It is the simplest component of semiconductor chips. A typical Intel Core processor has billions of transistors. The term "gate" in ...

Noted hardware historian and reverse-engineer Ken Shirriff recently found the exact transistors ... of Intel's first major failure 30 years ago. The image seen above is a photo of the CPU die ...

Not taking either number at their face value, [der8auer] decided to extract a transistor ... guts of a processor but perhaps at a more macro scale, why not learn about a forgotten Intel chip ...

The industry broke the million transistor barrier with 1-Mbit DRAMs in 1986 and with the Intel 80486 32-bit processor in 1989. The 80486 was manufactured in a 1.0-micron CMOS manufacturing process ...

started the event by acknowledging that Intel’s traditional approach of designing processors has been so tightly paired with the company’s ability to manufacture chips with higher transistor ...

Whereas the CPUs and similar ASICs of the 1970s ... recognizable structures under an optical microscope. Case in point an original (P54C) Intel Pentium, which [Ken Shirriff] took an in-depth ...