1. On the Wikipedia page, the first figure on the page is a Plot of CPU transistor count against dates of introduction of the CPU technology. Print this figure out. Compare what the figure predicts for a CPU introduced in 2006 with the chip in Figure 2. Show on the figure how you arrived at the expected number of transistors for 2006. Discuss what might cause differences, if any, between the numbers. (5 pts.)

2. For the IC in Figure 2, assume that the chip has an area of about 1 cm2 , calculate how many transistors/cm2 there are for the chip shown in Figure 2. Based on your answer, and on Moores law, what would you expect the number of transistors/cm2 to be for ICs being manufactured in 2018? (Recall that the IC in Figure 2 is from 2006.) (10 pts.)

3. Calculate the approximate volume of a device at the 7 nm technology node. (some cell phones already use ICs using this nodes technology. A technology node refers to the typical feature size for a given IC technology defined by the abilities of the fabrication tools used to manufacture the IC. Assume that the device can be approximated as a cube. For the volume of this cube, how many dopant atoms would you expect to be included in each device in a 7 nm technology node IC if your doping density is 1x1015 dopant atoms/cm3 . (10 pts)

Moore's Law - The number of transistors on integrated circuit chips (1971-2016) Moore's law describes the empirical regularity that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years This advancement is important as other aspects of technological progress -such as processing speed or the price of electronic products - are strongly linked to Moore's law Our World in Data 20,000,000,000 10,000,000,000 5,000,000,000 BM z13 Storage Controller 18-core Xeon Haswell SPARC M7 22-coro Xoon Broadwell-E5 13-core Xeon Ivy Bridge-EX 8-core Xeon Nehalem-EX ARM64 "mobile SoC) ris Core i7 Broadwell-U Quad-core + GPU GT2 Core i7 Pentium D Presler POWER 'uad-core-GPU Core i7 Haswell, Skylake ,000,000,000 500,000,000 Apple A7 (dual-core ARM64 "mobile SoC Itanium 2 Madison 6MO Pentium D Smithfield ore 2 Duo Conroe Itanium 2 McKinley Core 2 Duo Wolfdale 3M Pentium 4 Prescott-2MO Core 2 Duo Allendale m 4 Cedar Mill AMDK8 Pentium 4 Prescott 100,000,000 50,000,000 Pentium 4 Barton Pentium 4 WillamettePentium Il Tualatin Pentium Mobile Dixon ARM Cortex-A AMD K Ill Copperrmine AMD K6 10,000,000 5,000,000 AMD K6 Pentium Proo Rih UD Intel 80486 1,000,000 500,000 TI Explorer's 3. Lisp machine chip 700 Intel 80386ARM Motorola 68020 100,000 50,000 Intel intel 80186 Intel 8086o Intel 8088 ARM 2 10,000 TMS 1000 Zlg 5,000 Intel 80%, CA 1802 Intel 8085 1,000 Year of introduction Data source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count) The data visualization is available at OurWorldinData.org. There you find more visualizations and research on this topic. Licensed under CC-BY-SA by the author Max Roser Moore's Law - The number of transistors on integrated circuit chips (1971-2016) Moore's law describes the empirical regularity that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years This advancement is important as other aspects of technological progress -such as processing speed or the price of electronic products - are strongly linked to Moore's law Our World in Data 20,000,000,000 10,000,000,000 5,000,000,000 BM z13 Storage Controller 18-core Xeon Haswell SPARC M7 22-coro Xoon Broadwell-E5 13-core Xeon Ivy Bridge-EX 8-core Xeon Nehalem-EX ARM64 "mobile SoC) ris Core i7 Broadwell-U Quad-core + GPU GT2 Core i7 Pentium D Presler POWER 'uad-core-GPU Core i7 Haswell, Skylake ,000,000,000 500,000,000 Apple A7 (dual-core ARM64 "mobile SoC Itanium 2 Madison 6MO Pentium D Smithfield ore 2 Duo Conroe Itanium 2 McKinley Core 2 Duo Wolfdale 3M Pentium 4 Prescott-2MO Core 2 Duo Allendale m 4 Cedar Mill AMDK8 Pentium 4 Prescott 100,000,000 50,000,000 Pentium 4 Barton Pentium 4 WillamettePentium Il Tualatin Pentium Mobile Dixon ARM Cortex-A AMD K Ill Copperrmine AMD K6 10,000,000 5,000,000 AMD K6 Pentium Proo Rih UD Intel 80486 1,000,000 500,000 TI Explorer's 3. Lisp machine chip 700 Intel 80386ARM Motorola 68020 100,000 50,000 Intel intel 80186 Intel 8086o Intel 8088 ARM 2 10,000 TMS 1000 Zlg 5,000 Intel 80%, CA 1802 Intel 8085 1,000 Year of introduction Data source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count) The data visualization is available at OurWorldinData.org. There you find more visualizations and research on this topic. Licensed under CC-BY-SA by the author Max Roser