Technology timeline
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CPU
Electric Motors
Graphics Processing Units
Lithography Physics
Memory
Microprocessors
Operating Systems
Optical Lithography
Programming Languages
RAM
Semiconductor Process Nodes
Smartphone
Storage Technologies
iPhone
Early commercial microprocessor
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Launched the x86 architecture
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First working ARM silicon
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