IC Characteristics in relation to Feature Size Generation
Edited by David Barth, 7 December 2008
from page 78 of the September 29, 2008 issue of Aviation Week & Space
Technology, by David Hughes.
IC Characteristics in relation to Feature Size Generation at the time of this writing are as follows:
The following results occur each time the feature size changes one generation.
- The number of transistors on a chip (now in the billions) goes up by a factor of two.
- The processing speed of the chip (now in the millions of instructions per second (MIPS)) increases by a
factor of 1.4.
- Data throughput goes up by a factor of 2.8.