[taxcontrol]

While this is a great step forward, there is a lot of work still required in order to make a viable replacement for the x86 and x86_64 architecture. 10,000 transistors is 1978 density and slightly more than the Motorola 6809 chip

For comparison:
Pentium III 9,500,000 transistors 1999
Pentium 4 42,000,000 transistors 2000
Dual-Core Itanium 2 1,700,000,000 transistors 2006
POWER6 789,000,000 transistors 2007

[Straight Vermonter]

This is just proof of concept.

[Red Badger]

Yeah, but do they all haveta be ‘ON’ at the same time?........

[factoryrat]

It’s not how many, it’s how you use them that counts. There’s way too much bloatware out there now, and for consumer apps, that may be fine and all, but if you really want a uP to stretch its legs, you need your code to be as neat and clock efficient as possible, and RISC uP’s are the way to go.

[Puckster]

Density is one factor, EMP resilient nano-tube technology is another.

[Moonman62]

I just looked at Wiki and according to them GPU’s and FPGA’s in general have higher transistor counts than CPU’s. I wasn’t expecting that.