Pentium


Also found in: Dictionary, Medical, Acronyms, Wikipedia.
Related to Pentium: Pentium 2, Pentium 3, Pentium 4

Pentium

(processor)
Intel's superscalar successor to the 486. It has two 32-bit 486-type integer pipelines with dependency checking. It can execute a maximum of two instructions per cycle. It does pipelined floating-point and performs branch prediction. It has 16 kilobytes of on-chip cache, a 64-bit memory interface, 8 32-bit general-purpose registers and 8 80-bit floating-point registers. It is built from 3.1 million transistors on a 262.4 mm^2 die with ~2.3 million transistors in the core logic. Its clock rate is 66MHz, heat dissipation is 16W, integer performance is 64.5 SPECint92, floating-point performance 56.9 SPECfp92.

It is called "Pentium" because it is the fifth in the 80x86 line. It would have been called the 80586 had a US court not ruled that you can't trademark a number.

The successors are the Pentium Pro and Pentium II.

The following Pentium variants all belong to "x86 Family 6", as reported by "Microsoft Windows" when identifying the CPU:

Model Name 1 Pentium Pro 2 ? 3 Pentium II 4 ? 5, 6 Celeron or Pentium II 7 Pentium III 8 Celeron uPGA2 or Mobile Pentium III

A floating-point division bug was discovered in October 1994.

[Internal implementation, "Microprocessor Report" newsletter, 1993年03月29日, volume 7, number 4].

[Pentium based computers, PC Magazine, 1994年01月25日].
This article is provided by FOLDOC - Free Online Dictionary of Computing (foldoc.org)
References in periodicals archive ?
As one of the first 500 MHz Intel Pentium III processor-based workstations, the TDZ 2000 GL2 delivers exceptional price/performance and the industry's broadest selection of graphics options, from high-end 2D through highest-performance 3D graphics.
INTERGRAPH UNVEILS 500MHZ PENTIUM III WORKSTATIONS
The expected boom in electronic commerce will further drive computer sales, and Intel expects the majority of its new chips to be Pentium IIIs by the second quarter of this year.
Designed with Internet in mind
The four television ads that the technology company has developed to market MMX include two ads that show brightly colored semiconductor factory tech- nicians in spaceman-like 'bunny suits' dancing to hit music as they "put fun into the (MMX) Pentium processor." This scene is contrasted with white-suited technicians solemnly building the Pentium microprocessors.
Intel launches MMX multimedia ad blitz
The Athlon 200GE ships with a TDP of 35 W while the older Pentium G4560 has a TDP of 54 W.
AMD Athlon 200GE with Radeon Vega graphics announced at 55ドル
cache subsystem was a downgrade when compared to Pentium Pros
Past, present and future of microprocessor
The new technology appears to have been developed for mobile use originally and is believed to be based partly on Intel's Pentium III processor and partly on its Pentium 4, designed for use in notebook computers.
Intel reveals new chip architecture
Over the year, the Pentium 4 has grown from its less than stellar performance at the time of its launch (even prompting a class-action lawsuit) to a very fast, if power hungry, processor.
End of the megahertz myth?
* Ultra Low and Low Voltage Pentium M (ultraportables)
Portable, powerful, and practical: maneuvering through the crowded field of laptop computers
Fujitsu Siemens announced the Primergy BX300 with a two-way blade based on the Pentium III Low Voltage chip running at 1GHz about a year ago.
Fujitsu Siemens Puts Pentium M in Blade Servers
The RS310 came with a 2.40GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor, an 80GB hard drive, 256MB of RAM, a DVD-RW/CD-RW drive, and four USB ports.
Desktop roundup: here's how to find the perfect PC for your small business buck
The W2 follows on from the earlier, 999g "Light T1" laptop from the same company that had an 866MHz Pentium III Mobile CPU, a 12.1-inch LCD screen and 20-gig hard drive.
Panasonic Let's Note W2

Full browser ?