I imagine in another few years the Intel Core Duo will make the list, because of its status as the first major multicore CPU on the consumer market. Realize th

I imagine in another few years the Intel Core Duo will make the list, because of its status as the first major multicore CPU on the consumer market. Realize that's still x86. I'm not sure we'll see that change, though. Another hugely influential Intel chip is behind that story: Itanium marks the point at which it became clear that the market's no longer receptive to completely new ISAs in general-purpose CPUs.