Part a: The number of transistors per IC in 1972 seems to be about 4,000 (a rough estimate by eye). Using this estimate and Moore's Law, what would you predict the number of transistors per IC to be 20 years later, in 1992?Prediction = Part b: From the chart, estimate (roughly) the number of transistors per IC in 2016. Using your estimate and Moore's Law, what would you predict the number of transistors per IC to be in 2040? Part c: Do you think that your prediction in Part b is believable? Why or why not? The following is the same plot but with the common logarithm of the y-axis shown. You can see thatlog(y) goes up uniformly.log(y)Moore's Law – The number of transistors on integrated circuit chips (1971-2018)Moore's law describes the empirical regularity that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years.This advancement is important as other aspects of technological progress – such as processing speed or the price of electronic products – arelinked to Moore's law.OurWorldin Data1150,000,000,0001010,000,000,00072-core Xeon Phi Centriq 2400SPARC M7IBM z13 Storage Controller,GC2 IPU32-core AMD Epyc„Apple A12X BionicTegra Xavier SoC5,000,000,00018-core Xeon Haswell-E5,Xbox One main SoC61-core Xeon Phi12-core POWER-Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx/SCX8180HiSilicon Kirin 980 + Apple A12 BionicHISilicon Kirin 7108-core Xeon Nehalem-EX1,000,000,000Six-core Xeon 7400Dual-core Itanium 20$10-core Core i7 Broadwell-EPentium D PreslerItanium 2 withDual-core +Quad-core + GPU GT2 Core i7 Škylake KQuad-core + GPU Core i7 HaswellQualcommShapoore 17 Broadwell-USnapdragon 835500,000,000POWER6Apple A7 (dual-core ARM64 *mobile SoC")9 MB cacheOItanium 2 Madison 6MOPentium D SmithfieldCore i7 (Quad)AMD K10 quad-core 2M L3Core 2 Duo WolfdaleCore 2 Duo ConroeCell Core 2 Duo Wolfdale 3MOCore 2 Duo AllendalePentium 4 Cedar MillItanium 2 McKinley100,000,000Pentium 4 Prescott-2MO50,000,000AMD K8O VPentium 4 PrescottPentium 4 Northwoode OBartonPentium 4 Willametteo O.Pentium II Mobile DixonePentium III TualatinOAtom710,000,000AMD K7 O OPentium III Coppermine ARM Cortex-A9AMD K6-IAMD K6Pentium Pro5,000,000OPentium III Katmai8 OPentium Il DeschutesPentium IIKlamathAMĎ K5Pentium6.SA-1101,000,000Intel 80486R4000500,000TI Explorer's 32-bitLisp'machine chipARM700Intel 80386Motorola 68020 0Intel19600ARM 35100,000DEC WRLMultiTitanIntel 80286Motorola68000050,000Intel 80186Intel 80860Intel 8088OARM 2VARM 1ARM 6Motorola68096SC816NovixNC401610,000TMS 1000Zilog Z80RCA 1802Bintel 8080MOS Technology5,000Intel 8085Intel 8008Motorola 6502Intel 400468001,00019722006200819821990200220122018Data source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count)The data visualization is available at OurWorldinData.org. There you find more visualizations and research on this topic.Licensed under CC-BY-SA by the author Max Roser.004.Transistor count19701974197619781980198419861988199219941996199820002004201020142016

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Part a: The number of transistors per IC in 1972 seems to be about 4,000 (a rough estimate by eye). Using this estimate and Moore's Law, what would you predict the number of transistors per IC to be 20 years later, in 1992?Prediction =    Part b: From the chart, estimate (roughly) the number of transistors per IC in 2016. Using your estimate and Moore's Law, what would you predict the number of transistors per IC to be in 2040? Part c: Do you think that your prediction in Part b is believable? Why or why not? The following is the same plot but with the common logarithm of the y-axis shown. You can see thatlog(y) goes up uniformly.log(y)Moore's Law – The number of transistors on integrated circuit chips (1971-2018)Moore's law describes the empirical regularity that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years.This advancement is important as other aspects of technological progress – such as processing speed or the price of electronic products – arelinked to Moore's law.OurWorldin Data1150,000,000,0001010,000,000,00072-core Xeon Phi Centriq 2400SPARC M7IBM z13 Storage Controller,GC2 IPU32-core AMD Epyc„Apple A12X BionicTegra Xavier SoC5,000,000,00018-core Xeon Haswell-E5,Xbox One main SoC61-core Xeon Phi12-core POWER-Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx/SCX8180HiSilicon Kirin 980 + Apple A12 BionicHISilicon Kirin 7108-core Xeon Nehalem-EX1,000,000,000Six-core Xeon 7400Dual-core Itanium 20$10-core Core i7 Broadwell-EPentium D PreslerItanium 2 withDual-core +Quad-core + GPU GT2 Core i7 Škylake KQuad-core + GPU Core i7 HaswellQualcommShapoore 17 Broadwell-USnapdragon 835500,000,000POWER6Apple A7 (dual-core ARM64 *mobile SoC&#34;)9 MB cacheOItanium 2 Madison 6MOPentium D SmithfieldCore i7 (Quad)AMD K10 quad-core 2M L3Core 2 Duo WolfdaleCore 2 Duo ConroeCell Core 2 Duo Wolfdale 3MOCore 2 Duo AllendalePentium 4 Cedar MillItanium 2 McKinley100,000,000Pentium 4 Prescott-2MO50,000,000AMD K8O VPentium 4 PrescottPentium 4 Northwoode OBartonPentium 4 Willametteo O.Pentium II Mobile DixonePentium III TualatinOAtom710,000,000AMD K7 O OPentium III Coppermine ARM Cortex-A9AMD K6-IAMD K6Pentium Pro5,000,000OPentium III Katmai8 OPentium Il DeschutesPentium IIKlamathAMĎ K5Pentium6.SA-1101,000,000Intel 80486R4000500,000TI Explorer's 32-bitLisp'machine chipARM700Intel 80386Motorola 68020 0Intel19600ARM 35100,000DEC WRLMultiTitanIntel 80286Motorola68000050,000Intel 80186Intel 80860Intel 8088OARM 2VARM 1ARM 6Motorola68096SC816NovixNC401610,000TMS 1000Zilog Z80RCA 1802Bintel 8080MOS Technology5,000Intel 8085Intel 8008Motorola 6502Intel 400468001,00019722006200819821990200220122018Data source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count)The data visualization is available at OurWorldinData.org. There you find more visualizations and research on this topic.Licensed under CC-BY-SA by the author Max Roser.004.Transistor count19701974197619781980198419861988199219941996199820002004201020142016

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Given: The number of transistors per IC in 1972 seems to be about 4,000.
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Part a: The number of transistors per IC in 1972 seems to be about 4,000 (a rough estimate by eye). Using this estimate and Moore's Law, what would you predict the number of transistors per IC to be 20 years later, in 1992? Prediction =