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the very pragmatic and practical Pentium III platform You mean the Pentium Pro platform? Pentium III is just Pentium Pro with off-package L2 cache and SSE ins
by cperciva 11y ago
the very pragmatic and practical Pentium III platform
You mean the Pentium Pro platform? Pentium III is just Pentium Pro with off-package L2 cache and SSE instructions. The P6 microarchitecture kept Intel in business from 1998 (when the P5 line concluded) until the Nehalem architecture launched in 2008.
- astrodust 11y agoTechnically the Pentium III is just a cleaned up and polished Pentium Pro, it's true. That basic design had a very long run, and is still going if you're going to include products like the Xeon Phi as a direct derivative. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/xeon-phi-detail.html http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/xeon-... I wouldn't call it dead yet. It's still paying dividends.
- cperciva 11y agoRight, I didn't mean to imply that the P6 design was dead. Just that once Nehalem launched in 2008 Intel had another alternative. From 1998 until 2008, the P6 was basically the only workable design Intel had available.