How many transistors are in an Apple M4 chip?
Technology hard Data from 2024
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The answer
28,000,000,000 transistors
Roughly 28B.
The M4 packs about 28 billion transistors onto a chip roughly the size of a postage stamp, built on a 3-nanometre process. For scale, the original 1971 Intel 4004 had 2,300. Doubling roughly every two years for fifty years is what turns a thousand into tens of billions.
Where this number comes from
| Source | Apple newsroom |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2024 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | transistors |
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