LONDON — Intel Corp. has started sampling an Itanium-2, 64-bit microprocessor that was made by linking together 1.72 billion transistors. The processor, codenamed Montecito, was discussed as far back ...

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SAN JOSE — During the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) here today, Intel Corp. demonstrated a 64-bit microprocessor with 500 million transistors, but noted that the company is far along in the development ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. on late Thursday debuted the Exynos 2600, a high-end mobile chip based on its latest ...

Modern CPU transistor counts are enormous -- AMD announced earlier this month that a full implementation of its 7nm Epyc "Rome" CPU weighs in at 32 billion transistors. To this, Cerebras Technology ...

For decades, chipmakers have squeezed more computing power out of silicon by shrinking transistors, but that strategy is ...

[Ken Shirriff] has been sharing a really low-level look at Intel’s Pentium (1993) processor. The Pentium’s architecture was highly innovative in many ways, and one of [Ken]’s most recent discoveries ...

The processors in today’s computers have grown tremendously in performance, capabilities and complexity over the past decade. Clock speed has skyrocketed, and size has dwindled, even as the number of ...

Intel Corp. held its annual Architecture Day semiconductor event today, where executives shared technical details about several upcoming chips for the data center and consumer markets. One of the main ...

Montecito exceeds the billion-transistor count because the Itanium-2 processor architecture is itself complex — a 64-bit processor intended for server applications — and the Montecito model ...