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Intel has launched the first chip to include two billion transistors. Known as the Tukwilla (why you may ask!) it isn’t likely to find its way into your home computer as it has been designed for high-end servers. Operating at 2GHz it isn’t a revolutionary step forward, but it does mark another milestone:
“It’s not revolutionary, it’s another evolutionary step,” said Malcolm Penn, an analyst at Future Horizons, of Tukwila, (so that would be where the name came from)
The first chip to carry 1 billion transistors was built in 2006, and in 2004 the equivalent chip contained 592 million switches.
Via [BBC]
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