List of Intel x86 Families
The following is a list of the Intel x86 processor families by year of creation:
x86-16
- (1978) 8086
- (1982) 80286
x86-32
- (1985) 80386
- (1989) 80486
- (1993) Pentium
- (1995) Pentium Pro
- (1997) Pentium II
- (1999) Pentium III
- (2000) Pentium 4
- (2003) Pentium M
- (2006) Core
x86-64
Starting with Intel Core 2, Intel started releasing processors with different tradeoffs between wattage and performance, to better support mobile and desktop devices. Presumably the x86 architectures order from lowest-wattage to highest-performance was denoted with the following brands: Atom, Celeron, Pentium, i3,i5,i7, Xeon, and i9, where atom was the lowest-wattage/lowest-performance and i9 was the highest-performance/highest-power CPU. Initially, the i-nomenclature included both desktop and mobile versions, but later the mobile CPUs were renamed using m-nomenclature: m3, m5, and m7 making the lineup: m3, m5, m7, Atom, Celeron, Pentium, i3, i5, i7, Xeon, i9.
Year |
Transistor |
CPU Family |
|---|---|---|
2006 |
65 nm |
Core-2 |
2008 |
45 nm |
Intel Core gen1 (Nehalem) |
2011 |
32 nm |
Intel Core gen2 (SandyBridge) |
2012 |
22 nm |
Intel Core gen3 (IvyBridge)) |
2013 |
22 nm |
Intel Core gen4 (Haswell) |
2015 |
14 nm |
Intel Core gen5 (Broadwell) |
2015 |
14 nm |
Intel Core gen6 (SkyLake) |
2016 |
14 nm |
Intel Core gen7 (KabyLake) |
2017 |
10 nm |
Intel Core gen8 (CannonLake) |
2019 |
10 nm |
Intel Core gen9 (IceLake) |
2020 |
TBD nm |
Intel Core gen10 (TigerLake) |