The latest Pentium II pulses five times as fast as the first Pentium, introduced in 1993.
The Pentium III is essentially a Pentium II processor, with the same 512KB off-chip secondary cache and 100-MHz system bus.
The Pentium 4 also features a deeper pipeline than the Pentium III.
Intel has had difficulty keeping up with demand for its higher speed Pentium IIIs, particularly its Coppermine processor, a 733 MHz Pentium III chip.
By the late 1990s, he had overseen the development of his share of high-profile products, including Intel's Pentium Pro, Pentium II and Pentium MMX processors.
Intel has shipped 6, 000 prototype Pentium 4 PCs to developers, who are busy developing applications, peripherals and other products that will work with Pentium 4 systems, he said.
Other features that should boost the performance of the Pentium 4 include a 400MHz system bus, which is about three times faster than the bus on the Pentium III.
Fearing a botched launch for Pentium 4 because of insufficient supplies of RDRAM, Intel has conceded in recent weeks that it will use other memory technologies like conventional SDRAM and possibly DDR as a memory option with Pentium 4.
While it would take several hundred of today's Pentium chips to supply as many transistors as the human brain has nerve cells, in 15 years it should take only one or two of the Pentium's successors to do the job.
It will be like the flow of electrons in a Pentium processor, says Pfost.
"All I know is, it's the guys from the Pentium commercial, " says one fan.
Intel has said it plans to introduce the Pentium 4 at 1.4 GHz or higher.
Intel faced scandal in 1994 when it mishandled news about flaws in its Pentium chip.
The cores could work together to accomplish more than any hot-running, single-core Pentium could do alone.
When customers learned about a flaw in Intel's Pentium chips, Grove refused to acknowledge the bug.
By 1995 its Pentium Pro packed 5.5 million transistors, some as small as 0.35 microns wide.
By 1995 its Pentium Pro packed in 5.5 million transistors, some at 0.35 microns wide.
GHz Athlon processor has blown the Pentium III away, beating it on both price and performance.
K5 more than two years behind the Pentium, and the Austin plant lay largely idle.
The high-end version comes with a 3.06GHz Pentium processor, 512MB of RAM, and a 200GB hard drive.
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This year's Pentium III is up to 28 million transistors, which are down to 0.18 microns wide.
Traditionally, Intel's prima donna Pentium engineers in Hillsboro, Ore. would outdo each other to set clock-speed records.
In fact, the 450-MHz PIII systems ran not much faster than 450-MHz Pentium IIs in our tests.
The highest-profile result was the release this yearof AMD's 1-gigahertz Athlon microprocessor, which competes against Intel's fastest Pentium.
Rambus technology was supposed to be the only memory-interface technology to work with Intel's forthcoming Pentium 4 processor.
Pentium-based system with plenty of hard drive space and 64 megabytes of memory.
The computer under the dash of a BMW 7-series sedan is on par with a Pentium PC circa 1997.
That's when the chip giant is expected to announce even faster Pentium III processors with the dual-speed Geyserville technology.
The chip offers the processing power of second-generation Pentium M processors, with the power consumption of a cellphone chip.
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Its Mips Technologies microprocessor is about as fast as an old 133-megahertz Pentium.
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