Intel CPU Transistor Density : 90 nm generation...

[incurable]

Would you like to share some information on the power consumption of any Hammer-core CPU? Cause AMD isn't exactly forthcoming with it.

TDI (Thermal design power) for the Athlon FX platform is 85W. That is the guaranteed not to exceed limit for the highest end CPU to go in that form factor. So will probably be for a 2.2GHz or 2.4GHz CPU. Currently the 1.8GHz Opteron uses around 55W.

Thanks,

incurable

 

[Josiah]

check out this pdf I found:
http://courses.ece.uiuc.edu/ece412/lectures/lecture2.pdf
on page 10 "CMOS Trends [Collated from the 2000 update of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors"

this guy thinks that by 2007 cpus with OVER a billion transistors won't be uncommon, and by 2013 over 10 billion (Playstation 4?).