Interactive visualization of 40 years of hardware performance milestones
jwt0625 · x · 2026-09-27
The Outside Five Sigma blog published an interactive log-scale chart of hardware performance milestones from 1978 to 2017, covering microprocessors, memory, networks, and disks. Data draws on Patterson's 2004 CACM paper "Latency Lags Bandwidth" and a user-provided table; the author notes these are selected milestones, not comprehensive benchmarks, and provides source notes and transcription details.
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