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Subject: Re: pentium 5 already released years ago

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 06:08:19 12/17/02

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On December 16, 2002 at 21:51:33, Matt Taylor wrote:

>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 (???)

This is beginners math which isn't true.

Intel is cross using P4 and Pentium 4. Nowhere they call it P7.

Nowhere they talk about a P5 or Pentium 5 either to get released.
A few years ago P5 and Pentium 5 were cross used too at the internet
*everywhere* also by intel.

So they impossibly can call the follow up of the P4 a 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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