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IBM developed the first automatic mass-production facility for transistors in New York in 1960.
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On April 19, 1965, Gordon Moore made an observation about integrated circuits that became known as Moore's Law.
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Intel with the help of Ted Hoff introduced the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004 on November 15, 1971. The 4004 had 2,300 transistors, performed 60,000 OPS (operations per second), addressed 640 bytes of memory, and cost $200.00.
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Intel introduced the 8008 processor on April 1, 1972.
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Intel introduced the 8085 processor in March 1976.
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The Motorola 68000, a 16/32-bit processor was released and was later chosen as the processor for the Apple Macintosh and Amiga computers.
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Cyrix released their first coprocessors, the FasMath 83D87 and 83S87, in 1989. These were x87 compatible and designed for 386 computers. The FasMath coprocessors were up to 50% faster than the Intel 80387 processor.
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Intel released the Pentium processor on March 22, 1993. The processor was a 60 MHz processor, incorporates 3.1 million transistors and sells for $878.00.
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Cyrix released the Cx5x86 processor in 1995, in an attempt to compete with the Intel Pentium processors.
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The Intel Pentium III Coppermine series was first introduced on October 25, 1999.
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On January 5, 2000, AMD released the 800 MHz Athlon processor.
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AMD released their first dual-core processor, the Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (2.0 GHz, 512 KB L2 cache per core), on April 21, 2005.
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Intel released the Core 2 Quad processor Q9500 (6 M cache, 2.83 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB) in January 2010.
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Intel released the first desktop processor with 16 cores, the Core i9-7960X, in September 2017. It runs at 2.8 GHz and features 22 MB L3 cache.
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Intel released the first Core i9 mobile processor, the i9-8950HK, in April 2018. It uses the BGA 1440 socket, runs at 2.9 GHz, has six cores, and features 12 MB L3 cache.