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So I'm a programmer. More or less an amateur web-developer who is also interested in hardware and architecture. I can't help but notice that all chip manufacturers like Intel, AMD, Apple etc. go on saying they have a billion plus transistors on their CPU chips.

From my understanding, there are a few circuits for:

Mathematical Computation (FPU,IPU)
Branch prediction system,
Caches and Registers
Multiple instruction set execution engines
Opcode buffers

Each one of them are complex on their own but the basic design of most of these things would take about 10s of thousands of transistors or maybe 100s. Even then, a billion+ sounds like too much. Is it just the transition from Basic Implementation to Fully advanced Implementation cause the bump in transistor count or am I missing something?

PS: I am a newbie at hardware and architecture. Please excuse my ignorance and naivety.

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The blu-ray XL (BDXL) format, which allows for up to 128GB of storage per disc, was standardized in 2010 - 10 years ago. Has there been no new advancements in consumer disc storage since then? 100GB is a paltry amount for my backup and storage needs.

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