Gregory's Server
This diagram shows the main functional blocks of the Pentium. The code and data caches are on the left, recognizable by the uniform rectangles of their storage. To the right are the integer and floating point execution units, the heart of the chip. 2/2
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@kenshirriff One thing I find hard to visualise is the increasing complexity of these later chips. Could you do a side-by-side comparison of maybe this vs 386, or 386 vs something much earlier like a 6502, where the feature size is scaled the same? That would more easily show just how huge the newer chips are, if all transistors were the same size