Moore's Law

Looking over Intel's site today and came acrossed a few pages dedicated to Moore's Law ~ the amount of transistors doubles ever two years. Current Intel processors have over 500,000,000 transistors, or over 1,000,000,000 for a dual core.

Much of that is redundant circuity, one small memory block used again and again to build a large buffer for example.

Even so these processors are large design efforts, with a 100,000 circuits