View source for 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:

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P5_(microarchitecture)#P55C Intel Pentium P55C] (October 1996)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68000 Motorola 68000] (November 1980)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_21164 DEC Alpha 21164 EV5] (January 1995)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge Intel Core i7-2600K] (January 2011)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlon#Thunderbird_(T-Bird) AMD Athlon Thunderbird] (DDR 1.4GHz variant) (June 2000)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_8_series NVIDIA G80] (October 2006)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_X-MP Cray X-MPU] (1982)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am386 AMD Am386DX-40] (1991)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_600 PowerPC 603e] (August 1996)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A9 ARM Cortex-A9]

Also receiving votes: MIPS R4000, some UltraSPARC