After Meltdown and Spectre, giant 6502 processors don't seem so silly now, do they?
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To give you some reference ARM6 was in the low 20k transistor range, ARM 7 the high 20k transistor range if I recall correctly. Can't recall the 68k transistor count now. Full custom design flow of course, not standard cell.
According to multiple sources online, ARM 6 had 30k transistors and ARM 7 had 58k transistors. The 68k famously had 68k transistors.
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Your ARM numbers are high. I want to say 21K and 28K but it's too long ago and I may have my rose tinted glasses on, ARM6 was certainly <30K. Your ARM7 number maybe from a later softcore. 68K sounds ballpark.
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- http://www.wagnercg.com/Portals/0/FunStuff/AHistoryofMicroprocessorTransistorCount.pdf … - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count#Microprocessors … - https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~theom/riscos/docs/ultimate/a252arm6.txt … - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Early_licensees … I'd say "ARM6 was certainly <30K" is certainly false. ;)pic.twitter.com/8W801NE6pO
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