It also has large register files which increases power consumption and chip area.

Compared to the original chipset in the Xbox 360 the combined power requirements are reduced by 60% and the physical chip area by 50%.

The main reason to make transistors smaller is to pack more and more devices in a given chip area.

As of 2012, typical chip areas range from a few square millimeters to around 450 mm, with up to 9 million transistors per mm.

It allowed the integration of twice the number of transistors in the same chip area; 2.

It's such a blue chip area.

Generally the circuit is constrained to minimum chip area meeting a prespecified delay.

This saves chip area at the expense of slower interrupt handling.

The current industry practice is to state the chip area so the size of the 8080 chip would be 19.7 mm.

Checking more places takes more power, chip area, and potentially time.