Intel celebrates 40 Years of Digital Revolution
Intel has announced the 40th anniversary of its world's first commercially available microprocessor - the Intel 4004 triggering the start of the digital revolution.
For example, compared to the Intel 4004, toda's second-generation Intel Core processors are more than 350,000 times the performance and each transistor uses about 5,000 times less energy. In this same time period, the price of a transistor has dropped by a factor of about 50,000.
Future microprocessors developed on Intel's next-generation 22nm manufacturing process are due in systems starting next year and will deliver even more energy-efficient performance as a result of the company's breakthrough 3-D Tri-Gate transistors that make use of a new transistor structure. These novel transistors usher in the next era of Moore's Law and make possible a new generation of innovations across a broad spectrum of devices.
While looking back to see how much things have changed since the microprocessor's introduction, it is astounding to think about the future and how this digital revolution will continue at a rapid pace as microprocessor technology continues to evolve.
"The sheer number of advances in the next 40 years will equal or surpass all of the innovative activity that has taken place over the last 10,000 years of human history," said Justin Rattner, Chief Technology Officer, Intel.
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