CPU Feature Sizes, from 10,000nm in the 4004 to 7nm in the i7 in over 50 years
There was a general trend in the CPU offerings since the Intel 4004 (the first mass produced microprocessor released in 1971 with a feature size of 10,000nm) called Moore’s Law. Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors that make up a CPU (or other Integrated Circuit) doubles every two years. The original 486 CPU […]