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I’m not sure I agree with your point about the Itanium2 specifically on this graph. It looks like the Itanium2 is an anomaly on the high side of the hockey stic

• kurthr 7y ago
  Since this chart doesn't show transistors/mm2 you kinda have to use the peaks and assume they are close to reticle/density limite. You could look at the lower ones or the "average", but it's not indicative of what is possible. In fact both die size and reticle size have been growing, which makes the plots pre-300mm wafer over performing... little of that happened in the last 15 years which has not helped continue the trend, and that's over since GPUs have been at max reticle for years now. I'm guessing that die size increase was originally about cooling. (edits corrected grammar and double negative added cooling comment)