Hitachi SH-4 | 10M transistors | 1997 SPARC64 V | 191M transistors | 2001 DEC Alpha 21364 (EV7) | 152M transistors | 2003 SPARC64 V+ | 400M transistors | 200

Hitachi SH-4 | 10M transistors | 1997 SPARC64 V | 191M transistors | 2001 DEC Alpha 21364 (EV7) | 152M transistors | 2003 SPARC64 V+ | 400M transistors | 2004 Cell | 250M transistors | 2005 POWER6 | 789M transistors | 2007 SPARC64 VI | 540M transistors | 2007 SPARC64 VIIIfx | 760M transistors | 2009 16-core SPARC T3 | 1B transistors | 2010 8-core POWER7 | 1.2B transistors | 2010 Quad-core z196 | 1.4B transistors | 2010 SPARC64 IXfx | 1.87B transistors | 2011 SPARC64 X | 2.99B transistors | 2012 8-core POWER7+ | 2.1B transistors | 2012 Apple A7 | 1B transistors | 2013 12-core POWER8 | 4.2B transistors | 2013 Apple A8 | 2B transistors | 2014 Apple A8X | 3B transistors | 2014 32-core SPARC M7 | 10B transistors | 2015 [insert a crapton of ARM CPUs here] AWS Graviton2 | 30B transistors | 2019