Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 18:51:33 12/16/02
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On December 16, 2002 at 21:32:11, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On December 16, 2002 at 20:43:34, Matt Taylor wrote: > >>On December 16, 2002 at 12:34:50, Jason Kasick wrote: >> >>>When are the Pentium 5's due out? > >I still have a P5-133 laptop notebook! > >I swear to you, that pentium5 already existed years ago >from around 60Mhz to 266MMX. > >Can show you a picture from the p5 laptop if you want to :) > >No it ain't kicking a P4 yet and never will :) > >>Intel plans to take Pentium 4 to 5 GHz. AMD plans to release Opteron, and to >>compete, Intel is working on a chip that they call "Yamhill." Unless they name >>it something other than Pentium, it'll be the Pentium 5. No ETA since Intel >>won't even admit that they're working on it. >> >>-Matt P5 != Pentium 5. It's the name of the chip generation. P5 = Pentium P6 = Pentium Pro, Pentium 2, Pentium 3 P7 = Pentium 4 P8 = Pentium 5 (???) The number after the 'P' is the chip generation. Each generation represents a fundamental design improvement. The 4th generation (486) added caches. The 5th generation (Pentium) added pipelines. The 6th and 7th generations are a bit fuzzy, and I'm not sure what exactly changed, but they made the chips superscalar. AMD's 8th generation chip is 64-bits instead of 32-bits. Presumably Intel's 8th generation will be too. FYI, AMD has followed the same conventions with their line of processors. They have the K5, K6, K7 (Athlon/Thunderbird/AthlonXP), and K8 (Clawhammer/Opteron). -Matt
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