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Foil 66 Transistor Count Growth Rate

From Master Foilset for CPS615 Introduction -- Material from Culler and Koelbel Computational Science for Simulations -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken
100 million transistors on chip by early 2000's A.D.
Transistor count grows much faster than clock rate
- 40% per year, order of magnitude more contribution in 2 decades

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