10 Most Iconic Processors of My Lifetime

Not necessarily "the best", but the most iconic, and those which set the tone of an age. Biased strongly towards workstation processors.

I was born in October 1980, and thus this list excludes the Intel 8086, Zilog Z80, and MOS 6502. In no particular order:

• Intel Pentium P55C (October 1996)
• Motorola 68000 (November 1980)
• DEC Alpha 21164 EV5 (January 1995)
• Intel Core i7-2600K (January 2011)
• AMD Athlon Thunderbird (DDR 1.4GHz variant) (June 2000)
• NVIDIA G80 (October 2006)
• Cray X-MPU (1982)
• AMD Am386DX-40 (1991)
• PowerPC 603e (August 1996)
• ARM Cortex-A9

Also receiving votes: MIPS R4000, some UltraSPARC