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Moore's Law in Practical Terms

There are two popular formulations of Moore's Law [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law#Formulations_of_Moore.27s_Law]: > The most popular formulation [of Moore's Law] is the doubling of the number of transistors on integrated circuits every 18 months. At the

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CPU vs. GPU

Intel's latest quad-core CPU, the Core 2 Extreme QX6700, consists of 582 million transistors. That's a lot. But it pales in comparison to the 680 million transistors of nVidia's latest video card, the 8800 GTX. Here's a small chart of transistor counts