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Nothing is impossible, but has anybody done it since 2000 starting from scratch? AMD obviously has been at it from the start, Cyrix, VIA, NEC all did it but an
by VectorLock 6y ago
Nothing is impossible, but has anybody done it since 2000 starting from scratch? AMD obviously has been at it from the start, Cyrix, VIA, NEC all did it but any since Intel CPUs started being in the tens of millions of transistors?
- weare138 6y agoHitachi SH-4 | 10M transistors | 1997 SPARC64 V | 191M transistors | 2001 DEC Alpha 21364 (EV7) | 152M transistors | 2003 SPARC64 V+ | 400M transistors | 2004 Cell | 250M transistors | 2005 POWER6 | 789M transistors | 2007 SPARC64 VI | 540M transistors | 2007 SPARC64 VIIIfx | 760M transistors | 2009 16-core SPARC T3 | 1B transistors | 2010 8-core POWER7 | 1.2B transistors | 2010 Quad-core z196 | 1.4B transistors | 2010 SPARC64 IXfx | 1.87B transistors | 2011 SPARC64 X | 2.99B transistors | 2012 8-core POWER7+ | 2.1B transistors | 2012 Apple A7 | 1B transistors | 2013 12-core POWER8 | 4.2B transistors | 2013 Apple A8 | 2B transistors | 2014 Apple A8X | 3B transistors | 2014 32-core SPARC M7 | 10B transistors | 2015 [insert a crapton of ARM CPUs here] AWS Graviton2 | 30B transistors | 2019
- VectorLock 6y agoNo x86 ISAs in here. All licensed designs or first party manufacturer. I wasn't saying nobody could make anything as complex as current Intel CPUs. Cloning other ISAs either from clean room or from licensed designs like ARM seems to be much easier than matching Intel CPUs with a massive breadth of software and less hard specifics at the edges.