Evolution of the Intel processor.

The processor, also known as micro or CPU, is the brain of the PC. Its main functions include the application execution and coordination of the various devices that are part of a computer.

1971
It was the world's first microprocessor, created in a single chip, and developed by Intel. It was a 4-bit CPU.
Intel® 4004 processor
Initial clock speed:108KHz
Transistors:2,300
Manufa
cturing technology:10 micron



1972

Intel® 8008 processor
Initial clock speed: 800KHz
Transistors: 3,500
Manufacturing technology: 10 micron




1974
8080 became the CPU of the first personal computer.
Intel® 8080 processor
Initial clock speed: 2MHz
Transistors: 4,500
Manufacturing technology: 6 micron



 1978
A sale made by Intel to the new personal computer division of IBM, made the IBM PC Business laid great hit with the new product in 8088.
Intel® 8086 processor
Initial clock speed: 5MHz
Transistors: 29,000
Manufacturing technology: 3 micron








 1982
It was the first Intel processor that could run all the software written for its predecessor.
Intel® 286™ processor
Initial clock speed: 6MHz
Transistors: 134,000
Manufacturing technology: 1.5 micron


1985
The 386 added a 32-bit architecture, with ability to multitask and a unit of translation of pageswhich made much easier to deploy operating systems.
Intel 386™ processor
Initial clock speed: 16MHz
Transistors: 275,000
Manufacturing technology: 1.5 micron








 1989
Generating 486 signified to have a personal computer of advanced features, including an instruction set optimized floating point unit, or FPU.
Intel 486™ processor
Initial clock spee
 Initial clock speed: 25MHz
Transistors: 1.2 million
Manufacturing technology: 1 micron




1993
The Pentium microprocessor had an architecture capable of executing two operations at once.
Intel® Pentium® processor
Initial clock speed: 66MHz
Transistors: 3.1 million
Manufacturing technology: 0.8 micron



1995
It was used in servers and software and workstation applications (networking) quickly boosted their integration into computers.
Intel® Pentium® Pro processor
Initial clock speed:200MHz
Transistors: 5.5 million
Manufacturing technology:  0.35 micron








1997
Intel® Pentium® processor
Initial clock speed: 300MHz
Transistors: 7.5 million
Manufacturing technology: 0.25 micron









 1998
Processors for specific market segments, the Celeron processor is the name given to the line of inexpensive Intel.
Intel® Celeron® processor
Initial clock speed: 266MHz
Transistors: 7.5 million
Manufacturing technology: 0.25 micron





 1999
Reinforce performance with advanced imaging, 3D, adding a better quality of audio, video and performance in speech recognition applications.



Intel® Pentium® III processor
Initial clock speed: 600MHz
Transistors: 9.5 million
Manufacturing technology: 0.25 micron







2000
Intel sacrificed performance for each cycle to change as many cycles per second and improved SSE instructions.
Intel® Pentium® 4 processor
Initial clock speed:1.5GHz
Transistors:42 million
Manufacturing technology: 0.18 micron








 2001
The Pentium III Xeon Intel comprehensive strengths in terms of workstation and server market segments processor.
Intel® Xeon®processor
Initial clock speed: 1.7GHz
Transistors: 42 million
Manufacturing technology: 0.18 micron






 2003
Intel® Pentium® M processor
Initial clock speed: 1.7GHz
Transistors: 55 million
Manufacturing technology: 90nm









2006
Intel launched this range of dual-core processors and CPUs 2x2 MCM quad-core x86-64 instruction set, based on the new Intel Core architecture.
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor
Initial clock speed: 2.66GHz
Transistors: 291 million
Manufacturing technology: 65nm






Intel Core i7 processor family is a quad-core Intel architecture x86-64. The Core i7 processors are the first that use Intel Nehalem microarchitecture and is the successor to the Intel Core 2 family.

2008
Intel® Atom™ processor
Initial clock speed: 1.86GHz
Transistors: 47 million
Manufacturing technology: 45nm






2010
2nd generation
Intel® Core™ processor
Initial clock speed: 3.8GHz
Transistors: 1.16 billion
Manufacturing technology: 32nm






 2012

3rd generation Intel® Core™ processor
Initial clock speed: 2.9GHz
Transistors: 1.4 billion
Manufacturing technology:22nm