- 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: Ivy Bridge March
2012
- 4G:
Haswell (LGA1150)
September 2013
- 5G: Broadwell June
2015
- 6G: Skylake
(LGA1151) Aug
2015*
- 7G: Kaby Lake
- 8G: Coffee Lake 14 nM
- 9G:
Coffee Lake** 10nM Feb 2019
- AMD gen 3 Zen 2 series Ryzen 3/5/7/9
*Dates listed
here indicate official announcement, not actual product shipping
**confusing &
dangerous reuse of name: incompatible
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Bold Type
CPU models have been incorporated into our official Tiered Reference
Platforms for wide deployment. The rest only saw limited use in
isolated cases.
| Current Bravo Status |
| Blue |
Phasing
out |
| Yellow |
Current
mainstream standards |
| Green |
Advanced
& Special Projects only |
| Pending |
Evaluation
in-progress |
| 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. 2019:
8G Coffee Lake rendered redundant, due to pricing & availability
anormalities. AMD is also now officially supported, for the first time
since 1996.
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