CPU Specifications.
 
0.08 Microns          Transistors          CPU Informations
 

INTEL, old processors:

Processor Year (19xx) Clock Speed Mhrz Number of Transistors Manufacturing Process 
(microns)
4004 71 0.108 2,300 10
8008 72 0.108 3,500 10
8080 74 2 6,000 6
8086 78 5 to 10 29,000 3
8088 79 5 to 8 29,000 3
80286 82 8 to 12 134,000 1.5
386 DX 85 16 to 33 275,000 1
386 SX 88 16 to 20 275,000 1
486 DX 89 25 to 100(DX4) 1,200,000 1 
to 0.8 (for 50Mhrz)
486 SX 91 16 to 33 1,185,000 0.8
 

AMD

K6 II
(also named K6-3D)		 3Q 1998 300 to 350 9,300,000 
(K6:  8,800,000)		 0.25 
(K6: 0.25 or 0.35))
K6 III
(also named K6-3D+
or Sharptooth)		 4Q 1998 400... 21,300,000  ! 0.25
K 7 1st Half 1999 ??? ?? less than 0.25
 
Cyrix
New 6x86MX 
(Cayenne technology)		 98 (2nd half) 300 to 400 ??? 0.25
 
Intel, new processors
Pentium 
(586 , P5 , P54C)
93
60 to 200
3,100,000
0.8
Pentium Pro
(686 , P6)		 95 150 to 200
Maybe 233 ?		 5,500,000 0.32
Pentium MMX (586 , P55C ) 4Q  1996 166 to 266 4,500,000

0.35
Pentium II (686) 2Q 1997 233 to 333 7,500,000 
(without the L2 cache)		 0.35
Deschutes (686) 2Q 1998 350 to 450 ??? 0.25
Xeon (deschutes mobile) 98 300 and more ??? ???
Celeron (Covington)
1Q 1998
from 300
Should be:
7,500,000
0.35 ???
Mendocino
(Celeron N°2 , 686)		 4Q 1998 300 to 333 ??? 0.25 ???
Katmaï
1Q 1999 
450 to 533
???
0.25
Willamette
4Q 1999
800Mhz to 1.2Ghz !
???
0.18
MERCED (IA-64)
4Q 1999
800Mhz minimum
???
0.18

The intel Merced :
200Mhz front bus; 460GXmobo; 4/8 INT, 4 FPU, 4 decoders.
And it will be a professional version used in Servers. A later version should be adaptated for us.
 
The K6 III:
100Mhz bus
Cpu freq L1/L2 (cache)
Mobo freq L3 (cache)
Superscalar MMX (like K6 II)
bigger than K6 II but Super7 compatible.

The K7:
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0.08 Microns !
New CPUs:
As you can see each of the three best CPU manufacturers are creating processors with instructions enhancements.
To produce this new chips they must add lots of transistors, and this is a problem for the futur size and temperature, because a large processor is expensive, difficult to produce, and especially it would be too error prone of calculation because of the temperature (electronigration). Thus it is necessary to reduce the size of the engraving of the transistors.

A new technology !
The first CPUs for PC had a unit thickness which decreased by half every two or three years. A new technology is necessary, and it is that developed at the University of Texas which could be the solution well. Because it would make it possible to thus engrave until a smoothness of 0.08 microns by using Ultra Violet which are particularly easy to produce and the not very expensive ones. This price/quality ratio  is very favouring and is likely well to be adopted by the principal leaders of the production of CPUs.

But we must wait,
This technology will require given it on level of the factories and will thus ask for a time of adaptation. We will not see processors 0.08 microns on the market before less than one year. It should not be hoped that the processors listed on this page profit from this evolution.