Re: Number of transistors on a Intel chip

Posted by cadet1620 on Dec 06, 2012; 11:03am
URL: http://nand2tetris-questions-and-answers-forum.52.s1.nabble.com/Number-of-transistors-on-a-Intel-chip-tp4025797p4025798.html

Modern microprocessors are more than just a CPU. Both the 80486DX and Pentium II have on-chip memory caches, 8Kb for the 486 and 32Kb for the P2. Also, paradoxically, lots of hardware can be made faster by using more gates. For instance, a 64-bit adder can be made about 3 times as fast by using a technique called look-ahead carry generation but it requires about twice as much hardware.

Most microprocessors intended for general purpose computing include hardware floating point processors. I don't know of any that have hardware trig.

--Mark