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Intel 8088 (original IBM PC) compared to new Core i7

John Markoff writes: “Going from the Intel 8088 — the processor used in the IBM PC 27 years ago — to the Nehalem involves a jump from 29,000 transistors to 731 million, on a silicon chip roughly the same size.” Wow.

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