[ramshanker]

So how many transistors ( or GATES? ) that 10mm^2 is at 130nm?

[breck]

Approximately 590M max? (10^.5 * 1e6 / 130)^2

But not actually sure what % is usable and what distance between features is. So guess is actual number is a lot less than that.

[d_tr]

Ten million transistors maximum actually. The nm figure is not a transistor pitch.

[userbinator]

To put that into perspective, 10M is roughly the complexity of a Pentium II/III (without the cache).

[breck]

Thanks! Reading up on "transistor pitch" filled in a lot of blanks for me.

Cunningham's Law works.