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About what rough area percentage (or some other metric if you think there's a clearer comparison) of a 386DX is standard cells versus hand layout?



Looking at the die, I'd say roughly 1/3 of the die is standard cell. I think some of it was standard cell but with hand layout, rather than automatic place and route. About 1/4 is the datapath, which is highly optimized. Maybe 10% is the microcode ROM.




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