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In 1965, when he first set out what we now call Moore's Law, Gordon Moore (who later co-founded Intel) said the number of components that could be packed onto an integrated circuit would double every year or so (later amended to 18 months -- and recently amended again. In 1971, Intel's 4004 CPU had 2,300 transistors. In 1982, the 80286 debuted with 134,000 transistors. Now, run-of-the-mill CPUs count upward of 200 million transistors, and Intel is scheduled to release a processor with 1.7 billion transistors for later this year. For years, such progress in CPUs was clearly predictable: Successive generations...

Athlon 64: The processor that wasn't there? Conspiracy theory By Arron Rouse: Wednesday 30 April 2003, 16:42 AMD IS BETTING its shirt on the x86-64 AMD64 architecture. The Opteron has been released and has delivered some impressive results. But there are already rumours that the Athlon 64 might be pushed back to next year. And there is evidence for an even more startling conclusion. There is evidence that could mean the Athlon 64 isn't just going to be pushed into next year, there is evidence that it could be pushed altogether. The first piece of evidence in this conspiracy...