[comp.arch] Microprocessors: waste & utilizatio

nelson@m.cs.uiuc.edu (11/16/89)

Although I have no experience with the VLSI "real world," I would say
  that we are looking at a transistor area (for CMOS) on the order of
  5%.  I would expect the figure for just the logic to be about 2.5%, but
  highly regular, packed structures such as on-chip cache certainly
  boosts that number up.