Microprocessor chronology
Date Name Developer Clock Process Transistors ( millions ) Cores per die / Dies per module threads per core
2010 POWER7 IBM 3-4.14 GHz 45 nm 1200 4 , 6 , 8 / 1 , 4 4
2010 Itanium Tukwila Intel 2 GHz 65 nm 2000 2 , 4 / 1 2
2010 Opteron Magny-cours AMD 1.7-2.4 GHz 45 nm 1810 4 , 6 / 2 1
2010 Xeon Nehalem-EX Intel 1.73-2.66 GHz 45 nm 2300 4 , 6 , 8 / 1 2
2010 z196 IBM 3.8-5.2 GHz 45 nm 1400 4 / 1 , 6 1
2010 SPARC T3 Sun 1.6 GHz 45 nm 2000 16 / 1 8
2010 SPARC64 VII+ Fujitsu 2.66-3.0 GHz 45 nm ? 4 / 1 2
2010 Intel Westmere Intel 1.86-3.33 GHz 32 nm 1170 4-6 / 1 2
2011 Intel Sandy Bridge Intel 1.6-3.4 GHz 32 nm 995 2 , 4 / 1 ( 1 , ) 2
2011 AMD Llano AMD 1.0-1.6 GHz 40 nm 380 1 , 2 / 1 1
2011 Xeon E7 Intel 1.73-2.67 GHz 32 nm 2600 4 , 6 , 8 , 10 / 1 1-2
2011 Power ISA BGQ IBM 1.6 GHz 45 nm 1470 18 / 1 4
2011 SPARC64 VIIIfx Fujitsu 2.0 GHz 45 nm 760 8 / 1 2
2011 FX Bulldozer Interlagos AMD 3.1-3.6 GHz 32 nm 1200 4-8 / 2 1
2011 SPARC T4 Oracle 2.8-3 GHz 40 nm 855 8 / 1 8
2012 SPARC64 IXfx Fujitsu 1.848 GHz 40 nm 1870 16 / 1 2
2012 zEC12 IBM 5.5 GHz 32 nm 2750 6 / 6 1
2012 POWER7+ IBM 3.1-5.3 GHz 32 nm 2100 8 / 1 , 2 4
2012 Itanium Poulson Intel 1.73-2.53 GHz 32 nm 3100 8 / 1 2
2013 Intel Haswell Intel 1.9-4.4 GHz 22 nm 1400 4 / 1 2
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