1. Central Processing Unit IS – 221 PC Admin 2/26/2007 by Len Krygsman IV

2. Transistors

4. Moor’s Law “The number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years”

5. Intel and AMD First CPUs 4,500 transistors

6. 286 and 386 286: 134,000 transistors 386: 275,000 transistors

7. 486, and ZIF sockets 1,200,000 transistors

8. Pentium (586) 3.1 million

9. Pentium II: The Slot 1 7.5 million transistors

10. AMD Athlon, Intel Pentium III and the GHz Race Intel Pentium III: 28 million transistors AMD Athlon T-Bird: 37 million transistors

11. Today’s Chips: 64 bit Pentium 4: 42 million Athlon64: 114 million Core 2 Duo: 291 million Athlon64 X2: 233.2 million Core 2 Quad: 582 million Dual-Core Itanium 2: 1.7 billion