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Year Highlights on Computer Development/Evolution of Information


Age
2011 Intel released seven new Core i5 processors with four cores, the
i5-2xxx series (6 M cache, 2.3 GHz to 3.3 GHz)
2011 Zoom Video Communications, Inc. was founded.
2011 AMD released the first mobile processors in their A4 line, the
A4-3300M and the A4-3310MX, the first mobile processors in their
A6 line, the A6-3400M and the A6-3410MX , the first mobile
processors in their A8 line, the A8-3500M, the A8-3510MX, and the
A8-3530MX.
2011 Microsoft released Internet Explorer 9 and Excel for Mac,
introduced Office 365
2011 Samsung first released the Galaxy Note smartphone in 2011, and the
term phablet became a new way of describing larger phone.
2012 Google introduced Google play and released Google drive
2012 Microsoft released Windows 8, the Microsoft Surface, and the Type
Cover.
2012 Apple introduced the iPhone 5 along with the Apple Ear Pods.
2012 Android version 4.1 and 4.2.
2012 The Voyager 1 spacecraft, which launched in 1977 entered
interstellar space.
2013 Yahoo! announced it would purchase Tumblr for $1.1billion.
2013 Microsoft released the Xbox One, Excel 2013, Word 2013.
2013 AMD released the Athlon II X2 280, on January 28, 2013. It has two
cores and runs at 3.6 GH.
2013 Intel officially announced CPUs based on Haswell architecture.
2013 Samsung released the Galaxy S4, Galaxy Note 3 and Note 3 Neo
and introduced Samsung Knox in 2013
2014 Satya Nadella took over as Microsoft CEO on February 4, 2014
2014 Microsoft announced on September 30, 2014, the next version of
Windows, which would be called Windows 10.
2014 Google introduced Google Classroom and released Google
Cardboard.
2014 Android version 5.0 (Lollipop) was released.
2014 Samsung released the Galaxy Tab S and Galaxy S5 and the Galaxy
Note Edge and Galaxy Note 4 in 2014
2015 Microsoft released Windows 10.
2015 Apple officially released the Apple Watch.
2015 Google split into two companies. The new company known as
Alphabet is now responsible for Google, Nest, Google Capital,
Google Fiber, Calico, Google X, Sidewalk Labs, and Google
Ventures.
2015 Apple introduced Apple Music, Apple Pencil, and Live Photo.
2015 PayPal released the PayPal.Me.
2016 Ethereum Classic, a cryptocurrency, was released.
2016 Pokémon GO was released for Android phones and iPhone and was
downloaded more than 10 million times within a week and became
the fastest growing app in history
2016 Mobile legend was released.
2016 Dropbox began to force password resets after discovering that over
68 million accounts were being shared from an earlier 2012 attack.
2016 TikTok was released.
2017 AMD introduced the Vega and the Zen CPU microarchitecture and
the Ryzen.
2017 The WannaCry ransomware attack began to attack computers
running Microsoft Windows
2017 Intel introduced the Intel Core i9.
2017 AMD released their first Ryzen 5 processors, the 1400, 1500X,
1600, and 1600X models and released their first Ryzen 3 processors,
the Pro 1200 and Pro 1300 models.
2017 Twitter officially expands everyone's character limit from 140
characters to 280 characters.
2018 The New York Times and the Guardian revealed that the firm
Cambridge Analytica harvested 50 million Facebook profiles and
used that data to help Donald Trump's election team
2018 AMD introduced an upgraded version of Zen, named Zen+, was
released,
2018 Microsoft released Excel 2019 for PC and Mac and Word 2019 for
PC and Mac.
2018 Portal and Facebook Gaming was introduced by Facebook.
2018 Epic release the Epic Games Launcher.
2019 The first folding smartphones are introduced in February 2019 with
Samsung introducing the Galaxy Fold and the Huawei Mate X from
Huawei.
2019 Huawei is banned from doing business with U.S. companies due to
political tension with China. This led to Google no longer
supporting Android on Huawei smartphones.
2019 Apple released the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro
Max.
2019 Android version 10 released.
2019 The cloud-based gaming service Stadia was released by Google.
2019 Samsung released the Galaxy S10, S10e, and S10+ and Galaxy Note
10 and Note 10+ smartphones in 2019.
2020 AMD announced the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X CPU, featuring 64
cores (or 128 logical cores with hyper-threading enabled) for $3990,
at CES.
2020 Samsung unveiled three new smartphones at the Unpacked keynote.
The Galaxy S20 and S20 Ultra, and a foldable phone called the
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip was introduced.
2020 Apple released a revamped version of the original iPhone SE.
2020 Android version 11 released.
2020 NVIDIA announced it was acquiring Arm for $40 billion.
2020 AMD announced it would be buying Xilinx for $35 billion.
2020 Apple released the iPhone 12.
2021 Discovery+ officially launched.

Note: From 2011 up to the present.

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