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Re:Nvidia deeply unhappy with TSMC, claims 22nm essentially ... by ajross on Friday March 23, 2012 @01:39PM (#3746234)
Pretty sure most of the (logic) transistor count records are held by FPGAs, no?
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Re:Nvidia deeply unhappy with TSMC, claims 22nm essentially ... by pmjordan on Friday March 23, 2012 @01:41PM (#3746251)
Not at the clock speeds that nvidia chips run at.
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Re:Nvidia deeply unhappy with TSMC, claims 22nm essentially ... by ak217 on Friday March 23, 2012 @01:46PM (#3746272)
I guess you're right:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count

But they are very different beasts with different technology and a different (much smaller) market, right?

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Re:Nvidia deeply unhappy with TSMC, claims 22nm essentially ... by vtail on Friday March 23, 2012 @01:48PM (#3746283)
You are right: 2.6B for CPU, 4.3B for GPU and 6.8B for FPGA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count

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