What Are Processing Die Transistors?

[jamieyates14]

What exactly are Processing Die Transistors? I was looking at this http://ark.intel.com/products/37151/Intel-Core-i7-960-Processor-(8M-Cache-3_20-GHz-4_80-GTs-Intel-QPI) and it says that it has 731 Million Processing Die Transistors?
What are they and if 731 Million good?

 

[jamieyates14]

What exactly are Processing Die Transistors? I was looking at this http://ark.intel.com/products/37151/Intel-Core-i7-960-Processor-(8M-Cache-3_20-GHz-4_80-GTs-Intel-QPI) and it says that it has 731 Million Processing Die Transistors?
What are they and if 731 Million good?

**Supposed to say ''IS'' not ''if''!!!!

 

[jamieyates14]

Does anyone know what it/they are???????????/

 

[gnomio]

Google Moore's law. That will answer your question

 

[jamieyates14]

I get it now thanks 384-BiT and Gnomio.