A Brief History of CPUs: 31 Awesome Years of x86
Believe it or not, your terrifically fast Core i7 fresh off Intel’s assembly line contains DNA that dates back over 3 decades. The same is true if you roll with AMD’s latest, the Phenom II X4. We’re of course referring to the longstanding x86 microprocessor architecture that has dominated the computing scene since before some of you were even born
