Timeline of computing 2010–2019

2010

• April 6
• *Apple releases the original iPad.
• June 24
• *Apple releases the iPhone 4.

  2011

• May 4
• *Intel announces the commercialisation of 3D transistors, a variant of the FinFET.
• May 17
• *Lenovo releases the first ThinkPad X1.
• June 15
• *The first Chromebooks, by Acer and Samsung, go on sale.
• September 7
• *The first 4 terabyte hard drive is released by Seagate.

  2012

• February 29
• *Raspberry Pi, a bare-bones, low-cost credit-card sized computer created by volunteers mostly drawn from academia and the UK tech industry, is released to help teach children to code.
• September 11
• *Intel demonstrates its Next Unit of Computing, a motherboard measuring only.
• October 4
• *TDK demonstrates a 2 terabyte hard drive on a single 3.5-inch platter.
• October 26
• *Microsoft releases the operating system Windows 8.
• November 18
• *Nintendo releases the Wii U in North America.

  2013

• June 11
• *Apple releases the first Retina Display MacBook Pro.
• September 20
• *Apple releases the iPhone 5s, powered by the Apple A7 SoC which the company proclaimed to be the first 64 bit processor to be used on a smartphone.
• November 15
• *Sony releases the PlayStation 4 in the United States and in Europe 2 weeks later on November 29.
• November 22
• *Microsoft releases Xbox One.

  2014

• August 6
• *Introduction of the RISC-V architecture with its instruction set.
• August 26
• *The first 8 terabyte hard drive is released by Seagate.
• *Google releases the 64-bit version of Chrome for Windows.
• August 29
• *Intel unveiled its first eight-core desktop processor, the Intel Core i7-5960X.

  2015

• July 29
• *Microsoft releases the operating system Windows 10.
• October 15
• *AlphaGo was the first Go AI computer program developed by Google to defeat a professional human opponent on a full-sized board without handicap.

  2016

• January 12
• *The High Bandwidth Memory 2 standard is released by JEDEC.
• January 13
• *Fixstars Solutions releases the world's first 13 TB SSD.
• March 4
• *Scientists at MIT create the first five-atom quantum computer with the potential to crack the security of traditional encryption schemes.

  2017

• March 2
• *AMD launches the Ryzen CPU architecture.
• March 3
• *Nintendo releases the hybrid gaming console Nintendo Switch.

  2018

2019

• January 9
• *Lexar announces the first SD card which can store 1 terabyte.
• September 20
• *Google claims to have achieved quantum supremacy.