Family of Processors Year of Introduction Transistors

4004 1971 2,250

8008 1972 2,500
8080 1974 5,000
8086 1978 29,000
286 1982 120,000
386™ processor 1985 275,000
486™ DX processor 1989 1.18 million
Pentium® processor 1993 3.1 million
Pentium II processor 1997 7.5 million
Pentium III processor 1999 24 million
Pentium 4 processor 2000 42 million

Name of the Introduced in Technology Clock No. of

microprocessor Speed transistors
Core 2 Duo Aug 2006, Jan 65 nm, 45 nm
2008
Core 2 Quad Jan 2007, Mar 65 nm, 45 nm
2008
Core 2 Extreme July 2006, Aug 65 nm, 45 nm
2008
Core i3 Jan 2010 32 nm
Core i5 Jan 2010 45 nm, 32 nm 3.2 – 3.6
GHz
Core i7 Jan 2010, Jul 45 nm, 32 nm 3.33 GHz 781 million
2010

Better performance and thermal design power (TDP).