- 4004 1971
(calculators)
- 8080 1974
(CP/M & S-100)
- 8085 1977
(equiv. Zilog Z80 1996)
- 8088
1979 (PC & PC/XT)
- 80286
1982 (PC/AT)
- 80386 1985
(PS/2)
- 80486 1989
- Pentium P5 1993
(equiv. AMD, Cyrix)
- Pentium Pro 1995
- Pentium II (Slot 1) 1997
- Celeron (Covington
Slot II) 1998
-
Pentium III (Katmai) 1999
- P3 & Celeron (Coppermine FCPGA370)
2000
- Pentium 4 (Willamette PGA478)
2000
- Itanium (Merced) IA-64
2001
- Pentium 4 (Northwood PGA478)
2003
- Xeon 2004
- Pentium 4 (x64 Prescott PGA478) 2004
- Pentium 4 (Prescott LGA775)
2004
- Core (solo/duo)
2006
- Core 2 (duo/quad/Extreme)
2006
- Core
i
(i3, i5, i7)
2008
- 2G:
Sandy Bridge
(LGA1155)
2011
- 3G: Intel: Ivy Bridge March 2012
- 4G: Haswell
(LGA1150) Septermber 2013
- 5G: Broadwell June 2015
- 6G: Skylake
(LGA1151) Aug 2015*
*Dates listed here
indicate official announcement, not actual product shipping
|
|
Current Bravo Status |
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Blue |
Phasing out |
|
Yellow |
Current mainstream standards |
|
Green |
Advanced & Special Projects only |
|
Pending |
Evaluation in-progress |
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Skipped |
Was never adopted as standard |
We typically adopt a CPU family for workhorse
workstations 6~12 months after initial availability. For server platforms:
9~18
months.
Certification & Adoption status also depend on
the pairing of corresponding motherboard & chipsets. It's
a very lengthy test process on end-to-end
compatibility with BIOS, device drivers, particularly in the area of
our out-of-band management schemes and suites.
Once past compatibility hurdle, the next criteria are
aggregated merits & role placement, based on cost-performance ratio,
and whether it is best-of-class for a given segment.
As of September 2016, our official reference platforms comprise 6th
generation Skylake CPUs, and the the associated chipsets:
H110, H170 & Z170, using DDR4-2133N. Haswell
generation products using DDR3 still being deployed to sites
where consistency is required. |