Replies to post #48554 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[Tenchu]

WT, > Said to be 731M transistors

Which you can round up and call a billion ... #msg-22782557

Tenchu

[wbmw]

Re: Nehalem die pic

Wouter, it looks like the cores are arranged vertically along the width of the die, as opposed to AMD's flag-shaped approach. I wonder if there are additional advantages to this, such as via a die chop....

[mmoy]

Call it a billion.