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The 10 Most Influential CPUs of All Time
- Crunchified 3y agoNo Z80 on this list?!
- RetroTechie 3y agoMuch too x86 / PC centric. 8/10 are x86 (beside 68k & Apple M1). Not mentioned: Intel 4004 - first CPU to integrate all logic in a single chip. Intel 8080, MOS Technology 6502 & Zilog Z80 - powering CP/M, some industrial gear, early homecomputers & gameconsoles. 8080 regarded as common ancestor for 8086 and Z80 lines. DEC Alpha - one of the (if not the) earliest 64 bit architectures. Driving design & system performance to new heights in its day. Instrumental in the spread of Unix. ARM7TDMI - iPod, GameBoy Advance, Nokia 6110, coprocessor in Sega Dreamcast & PlayStation 2. Among many other uses. Intel 8051 family - powering a plethora of industrial control systems, in some cases to this day. Integrated in many other products. A variety of RISC architectures like MIPS, Sparc or the new hotness, RISC-V. Sony's Cell cpu. Very remarkable design in its day. Not to mention its performance (although difficult to program effectively). VIA/Cyrix C3, the MediaGX and their low power descendants. Powering many thin clients, handheld & industrial PC's. Almost forgot the PDP series. ;-) Related like DSPs, uC, Transputer, etc. That's just of the top of my head. Feel free to add.
- jonjacky 3y agoYes, "of all time" implies not just microprocessors. The obvious "most influential CPUs" before microprocessors were PDP-11, IBM 360 (the whole product lines, not any particular model) and CDC 6600.