Moore's Law in the palm of your hand

posted by Bryan Rhoads on January 13, 2008

core_2.jpg We took the silicon core of an Intel Core 2 Duo microprocessor, a camera and a microphone to the Las Vegas Strip here at CES 2008… and asked people ‘What is this thing?”

See the reactions for yourself.

For those who haven’t seen one, they’re quite beautiful and extraordinary. Fans of good design will marvel at the mind-boggling intricacy of 400-million transistors in about the size of a dime. All brought to you by Intel’s leading 45nm process technology.

Transistors are the tiny switches that process the ones and zeroes of the digital world. They make everything on the Internet and in your computer possible… including this sentence.

For comparison, approximately 400 of Intel’s 45nm transistors could fit on the surface of a single human red blood cell.

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Jan 10  |  Rebecca said:

Fun video, real people, great job!!

Jan 10  |  georgete said:

Wow… That’s Intel’s microchips making the unbelievable possible.

Jan 11  |  Steven said:

What the guy actually handed the people was only a part (silicon core) of an Intel Core 2 Duo chip… not the entire thing. This video descriptiong even tells us that. If he had handed me the finished product I would have known exactly what it was. I bet others would have too.

Jan 11  |  jayasurya das said:

intel’s next 32 nm and 22nm process will scale down the size of the chip and more than 400 million transistors of course will fit on the surface of a single human red blood cell.

Jan 13  |  alex said:

it’s just the start of the future so let’s go Intel!

Jan 14  |  Sant said:

WOW ! What will be the future?

Jan 14  |  Richard said:

Yo, Steven, That IS atually the WHOLE THING! The “rest of it” is only the package which takes several different forms, but these days resembles a small, green printed-circuit board.

Jan 15  |  sanath said:

hey jayasurya das are you sanath jayasurya? spin bowling world champion of the sri lanka?

Jan 17  |  Alex said:

Whatever it’s the future is with intel and the new Quantum technology. Ahh I can’t wait to see a quantum computer I give about 5-10 years to be completed developed. I hope Intel is enthusiast about it too.

Jan 18  |  petio said:

Maximum 9 more years Moore’s Law

Jan 18  |  techborneo.com said:

Wow that is an amazing achievement! nice video you got there.

Jan 20  |  Luis said:

hmmm…I really wonder how much smaller can it go. Well I’m looking forward to the Nano-technology to help improve the obstacles of making transistors smaller, my hopes are set on Carbon Nanotubes to overcome the shrinking size problem!! i’ll give them about 8 more years for that to happen though

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