List of Intel x86 Families

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The following is a list of the Intel x86 processor families by year of creation:

x86-16

  • (1978) 8086
  • (1982) 80286

x86-32

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)