Chipset history
Chipset history Year Chipset Bits Manufacturer Key Applications / Computers 1974 Motorola 6800 8-bit Motorola Early industrial controllers, SWTPC 6800 1974 Intel 8080 8-bit Intel Altair 8800 (The first popular PC), IMSAI 8080 1975 MOS 6502 8-bit MOS Tech Apple II, Commodore 64, NES, Atari 2600 1976 Zilog Z80 8-bit Zilog Game Boy, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, CP/M machines 1978 Intel 8086 16-bit Intel The birth of x86 ; foundation for the IBM PC 1979 Motorola 68000 16/32 Motorola Apple Macintosh, Amiga, Sega Genesis 1991 PowerPC 601 32-bit Apple/IBM/Mot Power Macintosh, Nintendo GameCube, Wii 2003 AMD64 (x86-64) 64-bit AMD/Intel Modern PCs, Xbox, PlayStation 4/5 Year Chipset Architecture Milestone Key Usage 2003 AMD Opteron x86-64 64-bit x86 The shift to 64-bit for PCs and Servers. 2006 Intel Core 2 Duo x86-64 Multi-Core Intel abandons high heat/clock speed for dual-core efficiency. 2011 ARM Cortex-A15 ARMv7 Mobile Dominance Powering the smartphone boom (Samsung Galaxy, etc). 2017 AMD Ry...