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Overview of the CPU

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There have been several generations of processors. The tables below delineate the processor and the year of release.

INTEL
Processor Name
Year
8086-8088
1978
286
1982
386
1985
486
1989
Pentium
1993
Pentium Pro
1995
Pentium II
1997
Pentium II Xeon
1998
Celeron
1999
Pentium III
1999
Pentium III Xeon
1999
Pentium 4
2000
Xeon
2001
Itanium
2001
Itanium 2
2002
Pentium M (Centrino)
2003

AMD
Processor Name
Year
386DX
1989
486
?
486DX2
1992
486DX4
1994
486DX5, 5X86
1995
K5
1996
K6
1997
Athlon (K7)
1998
Duron
2000
Opteron (K8)
2003

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