I recently wrote a (German) article including this graphic (in German). Here is an English version of it. Have fun!

Here it is!

If you want a slightly more editable version (with more Inkscape metadata and grouped data points): Here it is.

There is a German version of the same Graph, with quite a bit of explanatory text.

References

• Marcel Waldvogel: Was Prozessoren und die Frequenzwand mit der Cloud zu tun haben, 2024-10-12. In German.
  German version of the graph including Cloud-related background.
• Christos Kozyrakis, Aman Kansal, Sriram Sankar, Kushagra Vaid: Server Engineering Insights for Large-Scale Online Services (PDF, local copy), IEEE Micro, July/August 2010.
  Oldest copy of the dataset I could find; plus plenty of insights into the interaction between processors, data centers, and some large-scale applications.
• Karl Rupp: 40 Years of Microprocessor Trend Data, 2015-06-25.
  The version of the data on which the newer plots are based; plus some insights.
• Karl Rupp: 42 Years of Microprocessor Trend Data, 2018-02-15.
  Some updates.
• Karl Rupp: Microprocessor Trend Data, GitHub, living repository (last update: 2022-02-22).
  The data plus the plotting tools. The basis of my modified graph.