Today, Intel celebrates it’s 40th birthday. Exactly On November 15th, 1971,
the first Microprocessor with integrated circuitry has been publicly released.
With 2’300 transistors clocked at initially 108 kHz, later 0.7 MHz, the
processor was able to do 92’600 instructions per second.

Interesting facts about the 4004 and the actual I7-3960X:

	4004	i7-3960X	Change
Transistors	2’300	2’270’000’000	+9.8×108 %
Structure (nm)	10’000	32	-99.68%
Pins	16 (DIP)	2011 (LGA)	+12569%
Speed (MHz)	0.74	3’900	+527027%
Cores	1 (1 Thread)	6 (12 threads)	+600%
Memory Adressing	5120 Bit	(18 EtaByte)*	+2×1018 %
TDP	1	130W	+13000%
Voltage	0.5V	1.125V	+225%
Max. Temperature	70 °C / 85 °C	91 °C	+121%/+108%
Published	15/11/1971	15/11/2011	–
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		* theoretically

40 years and what a change… indeed. So let’s see what will happen in the next 20 years…