Sandy Bridge processors are a very remarkable evolution on the previous Nehalem and Westmere, with a number of changes at a technical level but maintaining its name: Intel Core i3, i5 and i7, being low, medium and high range respectively.

The 4004 CPU was the forerunner of all of today’s Intel offerings and, to date, all PC processors have been based on the original Intel designs. The first chip used in an IBM PC was Intel’s 8088. This was not, at the time it was chosen, the best available CPU, in fact Intel’s own 8086 was more powerful and had been released earlier. The 8088 was chosen for reasons of economics: its 8-bit data bus required less costly motherboards than the 16-bit 8086.

Also, at the time that the original PC was designed, most of the interface chips available were intended for use in 8-bit designs. These early processors would have nowhere near sufficient power to run today’s software.

• Intel’s founding traces back through Fairchild Semiconductor to Shockley Semiconductor Lab, the post-Bell Labs home of transistor co-inventor William Shockley. Founded in 1955 5, Shockley Labs focused on the development and evolution of the transistor. However, in 1957.
• More than 30 years later, or roughly 3,000 calendar years in computer time, x86 continues to evolve (see how easy it is for creationism and evolution to co-exist?) from its modest start in 1978.

The table below shows the generations of processors from Intel’s first generation 8088/86 in the late 1970s to the eighth-generation AMD Athlon 64, launched in the autumn of 2003:

Chronological Evolution of CPUs

Intel is the masterpiece in computer processor world. Intel Corporation founded on 18 July 1968. The most successful processors from Intel since 1993 are listed with rare unseen pictures. I do collected interesting unknown information about each processor. Hope you enjoy this post.

Original Pentium Processors

Year of release: 1993

CPU speed: 66MHz, 75MHz, 90MHz, 100MH up to 200MHz.

Socket: 273 pin PGA (Pin Grid Array)

Manufacturing technology: 0.8µ

Remarks: In 1993 this is the first processor capable of executing 112 million commands per second. This made easy for computers to process real world data such as sound, speech and photo images.

Pentium Pro Processors

Year of release: 1995

CPU speed: 166MHz, 180MHz and 200MHz

Socket: 387 pin PGA (Pin Grid Array)

Manufacturing technology: 0.6µ

Remarks: Primarily used for servers

Pentium MMX Processor

Year of release: 1997

CPU speed: 233, 266, 300, 333, 450 MHz

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Manufacturing technology: 0.35µ

Socket: 296/321 pin PGA processor package.

Remarks: Support Intel MMX technology.

Celeron (Pentium II based) Processor

Year of release: 1998

CPU speed: 266, 300 MHz

Manufacturing technology: 0.25µ

Socket: 242 pin slot 1 single edge processor package (SEPP)

Pentium III and Pentium III Xeon Processor

Year of release: 1999

CPU speed: 500, 533, 600, 733, 800 MHz

Manufacturing technology: 0.18µ

Socket: 242 pin slot 1 single edge contact cartridge 2 (SECC2)

Remarks: Improved version of PII processor. Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) instruction set. SSE is the extension to x86 architecture. Introduced low power consumption in idle state technology.

Pentium 4 Processor

Year of release: 2000

CPU speed: 1.5, 1.6, 1.8, 2.0, 2.4 GHz

Manufacturing technology: 0.18µ

Socket: PGA 478, PGA 423 (Pin Grid Array)

Remarks: Used in desktop and entry level workstation systems

Intel Xeon Processor

Year of release: 2001

CPU speed: 1.4, 1.5, 1.7 and up to 3.6 GHz

Manufacturing technology: 0.18µ

Socket: OLGA 603 (Organic Land Grid Array)

Remarks: Used in high performance servers & workstations. Named as “Xeon” (not “Pentium Xeon”).

Intel Pentium M Processor

Year of release: 2003

CPU speed: 1.7, 1.8, 2.0 and up to 2.26 GHz

Manufacturing technology: 0.09µ (90nm) uses Nano technology

Socket: Micro-FCPGA and Micro-FCBGA (Flip-chip Ball Grid Array)

Remarks: Intel Centrino technology used. Intel Pro/wireless and network connection are the components of Centrino technology. Centrino technology specifically designed for portable computer such as Laptop.

Micro-FCBGA

Micro-FCPGA

Intel Itanium 2 Processor (Single core)

Year of release: 2002

CPU speed: 1 GHz up to 1.6 GHz

Manufacturing technology: 0.13µ

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Socket: PAC611 (Pin Array Cartridge)

Remarks: New instruction set. Architecture is based on Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC). Designed for high end enterprise-class servers.

Intel Pentium D processor

Year of release: 2005

CPU speed: 2.6 and up to 3.2 GHz

Manufacturing technology: 0.065µ (65nm)

Socket: LGA 775 (Land Grid Array) also known as “socket T”

Remarks: Dual core technology introduced. First desktop dual core processor. Each core runs at same speed.

Intel Core 2 Duo and Dual-core Xeon Processor

Year of release: 2006

CPU speed: 1.8 and up to 2.93 GHz

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Manufacturing technology: 0.065µ (65nm)

Socket: LGA 775 (Land Grid Array) also known as “socket T”

Remarks: Desktop and server processors with dual cores. Hyper threading, Intel VT-x, multiple OS support, SSSE3 SIMD instructions and Intel TXT (Trusted Execution Technology).

Intel Itanium 2 Processor 9000 series (Dual core)

Year of release: 2006

CPU speed: 1.6 GHz

Manufacturing technology: 0.09µ (90nm)

Socket: FC-LGA6 (LGA1248)

Remarks: Itanium processor with two cores. Performance has been doubled compare to previous version.

Quad core Intel Processors

Year of release: 2006 (Quad core Intel Core 2 Extreme and Quad core Intel Xeon Processors)

Year of release: 2007 (Core 2 Quad processor)

CPU speed: 2.66 GHz up to 3.2 GHz

Manufacturing technology: 65nm and 45nm

Socket: LGA 775 (Land Grid Array)

Remarks: 64 bit microarchitecture. These quad core processors were delivered fifty percent higher performance compare to dual core processors. New SSE4 instruction set for improved video, imaging and 3D content.

Intel Core i7 Processors

Year of release: 2008

CPU speed: 2.66GHz up to 3.20GHz (Turbo boost)

Manufacturing technology: 45nm

Socket: LGA1366

Remarks: 3-channel DDR3 RAM support. Integrated HD GPU. 4 physical cores. Front side bus replaced with QuickPath.

Intel Core i5 Processors

Year of release: 2009

CPU speed: 2.40GHz up to 3.60GHz (Hyper-Threading Turbo boost)

Manufacturing technology: 32nm

Socket: LGA1156

Remarks: 2-channel DDR3 RAM support. Integrated HD GPU. 4 physical cores.

Intel Core i3 Processor

Year of release: Jan, 2010

CPU speed: 2.93GHz up to 3.33GHz

Manufacturing technology: 32nm

Socket: LGA1156

Remarks: 2-channel DDR3 RAM support. Integrated HD GPU. 2 physical cores and 4 threads.

Intel Pentium Processors

Year of release: Jan, 2010

CPU speed: 2.8GHz and 2.93GHz

Manufacturing technology: 32nm

Socket: LGA1156

Remarks: 2-channel DDR3 RAM support. Integrated HD GPU. 2 physical cores and 4 threads.