Timeline of computing 2010–2019

This article presents a detailed timeline of events in the history of computing from 2010 to 2019. For narratives explaining the overall developments, see the history of computing.

2010

• April 6
  • Apple releases the original iPad.^[1][2]
• June 24
  • Apple releases the iPhone 4.^[3][4]

2011

• May 4
  • Intel announces the commercialisation of 3D transistors,^[5] a variant of the FinFET.
• May 17
  • Lenovo releases the first ThinkPad X1.^[6]
• June 15
  • The first Chromebooks, by Acer and Samsung, go on sale.^[7]
• September 7
  • The first 4 terabyte hard drive is released by Seagate.^[8]

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.^[9][10]
• September 11
  • Intel demonstrates its Next Unit of Computing, a motherboard measuring only 4 × 4 in (10 × 10 cm).^[11]
• October 4
  • TDK demonstrates a 2 terabyte hard drive on a single 3.5-inch platter.^[12]
• October 26
  • Microsoft releases the operating system Windows 8.^[13]
• November 18
  • Nintendo releases the Wii U in North America.^[14]

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.^[15]
• November 15
  • Sony releases the PlayStation 4 in the United States and in Europe 2 weeks later on November 29.^[16]
• November 22
  • Microsoft releases Xbox One.^[17]

2014

• August 6
  • Introduction of the RISC-V architecture with its instruction set.^[18]
• August 26
  • The first 8 terabyte hard drive is released by Seagate.^[19][20][21]
  • Google releases the 64-bit version of Chrome for Windows.^[22]
• August 29
  • Intel unveiled its first eight-core desktop processor, the Intel Core i7-5960X.^[23][24]

2015

• July 29
  • Microsoft releases the operating system Windows 10.^[25]
• 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.^[26][27]
• March 4
  • Scientists at MIT create the first five-atom quantum computer with the potential to crack the security of traditional encryption schemes.^[28]

2017

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

2018

Main article: 2018 in technology and computing

2019

• January 9
  • Lexar announces the first SD card which can store 1 terabyte.^[29]
• September 20
  • Google claims to have achieved quantum supremacy.^[30][31]