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idoyesterday at 8:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

Way less than a million! I believe usually in the order of thousands.


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vidarhyesterday at 9:29 PM

Indeed. The 6502 had 3510 enhancement transistors and 1018 depletion transistors for a total of 4528...

watersbyesterday at 8:47 PM

The Motorola 68000, a great CPU with 32-bit operands, was initially implemented with 68,000 transistors.

The model number was decided long before the transistor-level design was finalized.