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Re:Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has ... by mycall on Thursday December 08, 2016 @12:05AM (#13128520)
SPARC M7 wins at 10,000,000,000 transistors.
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Re:Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has ... by akiselev on Thursday December 08, 2016 @12:41AM (#13128643)
That's because the SPARC M7 has a significantly larger die size. It's a very specialized chip that costs an order of magnitude more than consumer Intel hardware and is manufactured with tech a generation behind.

If Intel were to manufacture a chip as big as that, it would have 20-30 billion transistors.

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Re:Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has ... by m_mueller on Thursday December 08, 2016 @12:48AM (#13128663)
AFAIK their biggest one is Knight's Landing at 8B transistors.
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