Essays Tagged: "Pentium"

The History of Intel Corporation

ertising has also increased Intel's popularity. One of the most popular commercials advertising the Pentium processor shows a fly-through inside a computer then it scans down showing the Intel Logo on ...

(2 pages) 202 0 3.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Microarchitecture of the Pentium Pro Processor

IntroductionOne of the Pentium® Pro processor's primary goals was to significantly exceed the performanceof the 100MHz ... uctor process. Using the same process as a volume production processor practically assured that the Pentium Pro processor would be manufacturable, but it meant that Intel had to focus on an improved m ... ted ourselves - were carefully interwoven, modified, enhanced, tuned and implemented to produce the Pentium Pro microprocessor. This unique combination of architectural features, which Intel describes ...

(10 pages) 97 0 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

The History of the CPU

4/120 versions & was used in many compatibles.AMD also created a AM5x86 to compete with Intel's Pentium-class processor. TheAM5x86 offered Pentium performance while operating on a standard 486 mot ... MHzchip. It also had 16 KB on-die cache and supported a 33 MHz PCI bus.In 1993, Intel released the Pentium (P5). The original Pentium performed at 60MHz and 100 MIPS and contained 3.21 million transi ...

(12 pages) 110 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Computer Purchase Case Study.

our old computer system. The last one we purchased was in 1996. It was a Packard-Bell system with a Pentium I, 166 kHz processor. At that time our kids were 10 and 5 and my wife was a complete novice ... _ OtherOPERATING PLATFORMS:_X Windows Version XP__ Mac/Power Mac/I-MacPROCESSING:_X CPU chip, speed Pentium P-4 at 2.0 GHz_X RAM size 512 MB SDRAM_X Expansion Slots: __1____DRIVES:X Hard drive size: 4 ...

(4 pages) 214 7 3.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > Computer and Electronics Companies

Basic CPU Architecture

g a basic fetch-decode-execute procedure. Before going on to look at real-world processors like the Pentium and the Athlon and their associated complexities, we will look at BORIS - Beginners Optimise ... cture is the use of parallel and different arithmetic units that overlap arithmetic operations. All Pentiums since the Pentium Pro and all AMD processors since the K5 series have employed SIMD. Intel ...

(9 pages) 91 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

The Central Processing Unit (CPU)

each register is 32 bits wide. Therefore, each CPU instruction can manipulate 32 bots of data. (The Pentium processor may have a 64 bit data bus but its registers are still 32 bits wide. This makes th ...

(5 pages) 56 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Corporate Strategy

. They started with producing DRAM, now almost 30 years later they developed, and produce the Intel Pentium Processor. Almost everybody is familiar with Intel because of their marketing campaign &iexc ... uick Intel stayed in a crafting market.Intel¡¦s strategy for it¡¦s fifth (Pentium) and sixth (Pentium Pro) generations of microprocessors was to achieve an overwhelming advan ...

(12 pages) 491 2 4.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

The Porter Analysis

to make one of the smallest and lightest notebook computers. The ThinkPad 560 comes with a 100-MHz Pentium processor, 8MB of RAM and 810MB hard drive also with an 11.3-inch screen. This is all packed ... roprocessors. The industry standard for computers runs on Intel's microprocessor family such as the Pentium series microprocessors. IBM has little choice but to use an Intel microprocessor for their l ...

(13 pages) 236 0 5.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

The Evolution of the Pentium Processor

The Pentium 4 processor, which has recently become available, is the latest in a long family of processo ... the internal structures of the various members of the family and discuss the reasons for change.The Pentium 4 processor was announced in a blaze of publicity in late 2000 by Intel. It is the newest me ... ingle most significant change for the next generation of x86 processors to consumers was the name - Pentium. Using a name which can be trademarked (numbers can not in the US) is a sign of Intel's reco ...

(11 pages) 44 0 3.0 May/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Comp.sys.intel: The Internet and the Pentium Chip Controversy

Executive SummaryWherever possible, this analysis and its alternatives analyze the Pentium chip controversy form the perspective of the reviewer. Rather than repeating the facts, the ... ndation should be transparent.In June 1994, Intel Corporation discovered a flaw in its high-powered Pentium processor. That is where this analysis begins.Analysis and the IssueBackgroundIn 1994, Intel ... rocessor industry. By June of that year, the company had discovered a flaw in its recently released Pentium processor. Intel's experts concluded that the flaw was trivial. It corrected the error in su ...

(9 pages) 39 0 0.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Intel vs. amd the true story (intel bias)

a SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) technology. But with Intel's new line of processors named Pentium III they now have their own SIMD, KNI (Katmai New Instruction). AMD's line of processors use ... AMD was pushing its 3DNOW! technology hoping to have it widely supported before Intel released its Pentium III with KNI instructions. They did a fairly good job in getting 3DNOW! supported but only t ...

(5 pages) 26 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Computer Processors

today. The two most well known companies that make processors are Intel and AMD. Intel produces the Pentium chip, with the most recent version of the Pentium chip being the Pentium 3.Intel also produc ... est processor when it comes to 3D games and handles games quite well (Athlon Processor Quotes). The Pentium 3 processor is not quite as good at handling games. From personal experience with a Celeron ...

(2 pages) 1 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology