# source: Wikipedia 2017-12-05 # Processor Transistor count Date of introduction Designer Process Area Proc count Date Designer Process Area TMS 1000 8000 1974 Texas Instruments 8000 11 Intel 4004 2300 1971 Intel 10000 12 Intel 8008 3500 1972 Intel 10000 14 MOS Technology 6502 3510 1975 MOS Technology 8000 21 Motorola 6800 4100 1974 Motorola 6000 16 Intel 8080 4500 1974 Intel 6000 20 RCA 1802 5000 1974 RCA 5000 27 Intel 8085 6500 1976 Intel 3000 20 Zilog Z80 8500 1976 Zilog 4000 18 Motorola 6809 9000 1978 Motorola 5000 21 Intel 8086 29000 1978 Intel 3000 33 Intel 8088 29000 1979 Intel 3000 33 WDC 65C02 11500 1981 WDC 3000 6 Intel 80186 55000 1982 Intel 3000 60 Motorola 68000 68000 1979 Motorola 3500 44 Intel 80286 134000 1982 Intel 1500 49 WDC 65C816 22000 1983 WDC 3000 9 Motorola 68020 190000 1984 Motorola 2000 85 Intel 80386 275000 1985 Intel 1500 104 ARM 1 25000 1985 Acorn 3000 50 Novix NC4016 16000 1985 Harris Corporation 3000 ARM 2 30000 1986 Acorn 2000 30 68030 273000 1987 Motorola 800 102 TI Explorer's 32-bit Lisp machine chip 553000 1987 Texas Instruments 2000 DEC WRL MultiTitan 180000 1988 DEC WRL 1500 61 Intel i960 250000 1988 Intel 600 Intel 80486 1180235 1989 Intel 1000 173 ARM 3 310000 1989 Acorn 1500 87 68040 1200000 1990 Motorola 650 152 R4000 1350000 1991 MIPS 1000 213 ARM 6 35000 1991 ARM Pentium 3100000 1993 Intel 800 294 ARM700 578977 1994 ARM 68060 2500000 1994 Motorola 600 218 SA-110 2500000 1995 Acorn/DEC/Apple 350 50 ARM 9TDMI 111000 1999 Acorn 350 4.8 Pentium Pro 5500000 1995 Intel 500 307 AMD K5 4300000 1996 AMD 500 251 Pentium II Klamath 7500000 1997 Intel 350 195 Pentium II Deschutes 7500000 1998 Intel 250 113 AMD K6 8800000 1997 AMD 350 162 Pentium III Katmai 9500000 1999 Intel 250 128 Pentium III Coppermine 21000000 2000 Intel 180 80 Pentium II Mobile Dixon 27400000 1999 Intel 180 180 Pentium III Tualatin 45000000 2001 Intel 130 81 AMD K6-III 21300000 1999 AMD 250 118 AMD K7 22000000 1999 AMD 250 184 Pentium 4 Willamette 42000000 2000 Intel 180 217 Pentium 4 Northwood 55000000 2002 Intel 130 145 Pentium 4 Prescott 112000000 2004 Intel 90 110 Pentium 4 Prescott-2M 169000000 2005 Intel 90 143 Pentium 4 Cedar Mill 184000000 2006 Intel 65 90 Pentium D Smithfield 228000000 2005 Intel 90 206 Pentium D Presler 362000000 2006 Intel 65 162 Atom 47000000 2008 Intel 45 24 Barton 54300000 2003 AMD 130 101 AMD K8 105900000 2003 AMD 130 193 Itanium 2 McKinley 220000000 2002 Intel 180 421 Cell 241000000 2006 Sony/IBM/Toshiba 90 221 Core 2 Duo Conroe 291000000 2006 Intel 65 143 Core 2 Duo Allendale 169000000 2007 Intel 65 111 Itanium 2 Madison 6M 410000000 2003 Intel 130 374 Atom "Medfield" 432000000 2012 Intel 32 64 AMD K10 quad-core 2M L3 463000000 2007 AMD 65 283 ARM Cortex-A9 26000000 2007 ARM 45 31 Core 2 Duo Wolfdale 3M 230000000 2008 Intel 45 83 Itanium 2 with 9 MB cache 592000000 2004 Intel 130 432 Core 2 Duo Wolfdale 411000000 2007 Intel 45 107 Core i7 (Quad) 731000000 2008 Intel 45 263 AMD K10 quad-core 6M L3 758000000 2008 AMD 45 258 POWER6 789000000 2007 IBM 65 341 Six-core Opteron 2400 904000000 2009 AMD 45 346 16-core SPARC T3 1000000000 2010 Sun/Oracle 40 377 Apple A7 (dual-core ARM64 "mobile SoC") 1000000000 2013 Apple 28 102 Quad-core + GPU Core i7 1160000000 2011 Intel 32 216 Six-core Core i7 (Gulftown) 1170000000 2010 Intel 32 240 8-core POWER7 32M L3 1200000000 2010 IBM 45 567 8-core AMD Bulldozer 1200000000 2012 AMD 32 315 Quad-core + GPU AMD Trinity 1303000000 2012 AMD 32 246 Quad-core z196 1400000000 2010 IBM 45 512 Quad-core + GPU Core i7 Ivy Bridge 1400000000 2012 Intel 22 160 Quad-core + GPU Core i7 Haswell 1400000000 2014 Intel 22 177 Dual-core Itanium 2 1700000000 2006 Intel 90 596 Quad-core + GPU GT2 Core i7 Skylake K 1750000000 2015 Intel 14 122 Six-core Core i7 Ivy Bridge E 1860000000 2013 Intel 22 256 Dual-core + GPU Iris Core i7 Broadwell-U 1900000000 2015 Intel 14 133 Six-core Xeon 7400 1900000000 2008 Intel 45 503 Quad-core Itanium Tukwila 2000000000 2010 Intel 65 699 Apple A8 (dual-core ARM64 "mobile SoC") 2000000000 2014 Apple 20 89 8-core POWER7+ 80 MB L3 cache 2100000000 2012 IBM 32 567 Six-core Core i7/8-core Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge-E/EP) 2270000000 2011 Intel 32 434 8-core Xeon Nehalem-EX 2300000000 2010 Intel 45 684 8-core Core i7 Haswell-E 2600000000 2014 Intel 22 355 10-core Xeon Westmere-EX 2600000000 2011 Intel 32 512 Six-core zEC12 2750000000 2012 IBM 32 597 Apple A8X (tri-core ARM64 "mobile SoC") 3000000000 2014 Apple 20 128 Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 (octa-core ARM64 "mobile SoC") 3000000000 2016 Qualcomm 10 8-core Itanium Poulson 3100000000 2012 Intel 32 544 10-core Core i7 Broadwell-E 3200000000 2016 Intel 14 246 Apple A10 Fusion (quad-core ARM64 "mobile SoC") 3300000000 2016 Apple 16 125 IBM z13 3990000000 2015 IBM 22 678 12-core POWER8 4200000000 2013 IBM 22 650 Apple A11 Bionic (hexa-core ARM64 "mobile SoC") 4300000000 2017 Apple 10 89 15-core Xeon Ivy Bridge-EX 4310000000 2014 Intel 22 541 8-core Ryzen 4800000000 2017 AMD 14 192 61-core Xeon Phi 5000000000 2012 Intel 22 720 Xbox One main SoC 5000000000 2013 Microsoft/AMD 28 363 18-core Xeon Haswell-E5 5560000000 2014 Intel 22 661 IBM z14 6100000000 2017 IBM 14 696 Xbox One X (Project Scorpio) main SoC 7000000000 2017 Microsoft/AMD 16 360 IBM z13 Storage Controller 7100000000 2015 IBM 22 678 22-core Xeon Broadwell-E5 7200000000 2016 Intel 14 456 POWER9 8000000000 2017 IBM 14 695 IBM z14 Storage Controller 9700000000 2017 IBM 14 696 32-core SPARC M7 10000000000 2015 Oracle 20 Centriq 2400 18000000000 2017 Qualcomm 10 398 32-core AMD Epyc 19200000000 2017 AMD 14 4×192