A chip full of WIZes - page 2

A small 32-bit WIZ with a simple integer 32-bit adder and multiplier and other standard support devices can be built with about 100,000 transistors.

For comparison, the 1979 Intel 80286 chip had about 100,000 transistors, and it ran Unix and the first IBM PCs. The Motorola 68000 chip had 68,000 transistors and ran the first Apple Macs. A 100,000 transistor WIZ would be at least as powerful as these, and 1000 times faster as well, as today's transistors are 1000 times faster than those of the 1980's -- they switched in a few  nanoseconds, today's switch in a few picoseconds.

Recent chips from Intel and others are exceeding 100 *billion* transistors. And by the time you read this Moore's Law will increase that figure exponentially!

100 billion divided by 100 thousand = (potentially) 1 million WIZes on a single chip!

That's 1 MILLION PROCESSORS, EACH ONE CAPABLE OF RUNNING A WHOLE OS AND SUPPORTING MANY LANGUAGES AND MORE. And each able to run independently and simultaneously in parallel!

An NVIDIA "CUDA core" contains a a very fast 32/64 bit integer adder and multiplier, and is about 2.5 million transistors. NVIDIA is putting tens of thousands of these onto a single chip.

A WIZ with a similar backend device might have 2.5 million transistors as well. 100 billion divided by 2.5 million = 40,000 WIZes.

Thus, we can likely support somewhere between 40,000 and 1,000,000 WIZes on a single WIZ chip. And even more (Moore) going into the future!.