Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:33:27 12/17/02
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On December 17, 2002 at 09:08:19, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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. No, again you are simply _wrong_. The pentium was originally code-named "P5" and later named pentium when it was released. The next generation was the pentium-pro also code-named "P6". I owned one of each and still have a P6/200 at home. The P5 was the original pentium. The "pentium V" is something totally different and this discussion ought not to be going on, because it is ridiculous. Surely you can do a web-search for "P5" and find out what that means. Same for P6. And then for "pentium V"... > >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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