> I think that same transistor count was reached by Motorola on the 68020, which would've been around 1984 Wikipedia says ~200k (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

> I think that same transistor count was reached by Motorola on the 68020, which would've been around 1984 Wikipedia says ~200k (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68020), so about 50% more than 135k. I don’t know much of hardware, but part of that may have been because of (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68020#020_concept_emerges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68020#020_concept_eme...): “A great debate broke out about how to refer to the underlying design of the new chip in marketing materials. Technically, the 020 was moving from the long-established NMOS logic design to a CMOS layout, which requires two transistors per gate. Common knowledge of the era suggested that CMOS cost four times as much as NMOS, and there was a significant amount of the market that believed "CMOS equals bad.”