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Intel Core 2 - Yorkfield, 45 nm process technology, Number of Transistors: 820 Million MOS 6502, Number of Transistors: 3510 So in theory, a chip with 65536 M
by mmphosis 16y ago
Intel Core 2 - Yorkfield, 45 nm process technology, Number of Transistors: 820 Million
MOS 6502, Number of Transistors: 3510
So in theory, a chip with 65536 MOS 6502 cores each with 64K of internal RAM (4Mb cache) could be made.
- meastham 16y agoSure, if you completely ignore all of the extra circuitry for the on-chip network and cache coherency and everything else you would need. Transistor density is far from the limiting factor in the number of cores we can wedge into a single system.
- jdeeny 16y agoIf you assume that there is no cache (only on-die memory) and that memory is not shared between cores, things become much simpler and scale more linearly. Core-to-core communications and plenty of other details remain to spend man-years ironing out, but it seems like it would be possible to approach 64k cores or at least 16k.
- RodgerTheGreat 16y agoMight be able to peel out the BCD stuff from the 6502 to free up a little additional space and approach communication between cores kinda like the "handshake bus" GreenArrays chips use: http://greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/PB003-100822-F18A.pdf http://greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/PB003-100822-...