Intel expected to triumphantly roll out "P5" at Fall IDF

[batmanuel]

This P5 business is kinda funny, since the original Pentium's name was derived from the fact that it was the fifth major processor core design in the x86 family: (8086, 286, 386, 486 and then Penitum). So now we have the fifth version of the Pentium. It just has that "seventh son of a seventh son" sort of vibe. It would be funny if they actually wound up calling it the P^2 or something.

 

[Hacp]

Originally posted by: batmanuel
This P5 business is kinda funny, since the original Pentium's name was derived from the fact that it was the fifth major processor core design in the x86 family: (8086, 286, 386, 486 and then Penitum). So now we have the fifth version of the Pentium. It just has that "seventh son of a seventh son" sort of vibe. It would be funny if they actually wound up calling it the P^2 or something.

Poor AMD. They always get left out in x86 talks.

 

[batmanuel]

Originally posted by: Hacp

Originally posted by: batmanuel
This P5 business is kinda funny, since the original Pentium's name was derived from the fact that it was the fifth major processor core design in the x86 family: (8086, 286, 386, 486 and then Penitum). So now we have the fifth version of the Pentium. It just has that "seventh son of a seventh son" sort of vibe. It would be funny if they actually wound up calling it the P^2 or something.

Poor AMD. They always get left out in x86 talks.

Well, at the time AMD was just making 486 clones. They didn't their K5 out the door until 1995, nearly two years after the first Pentium. I don't think they were really a player until the K6 and K6-2 processors came around much later and they really came into their own with the Athlon. In the 1993 time period I was talking about with the first Pentium, they really weren't doing anything really revolutionary, IMHO.

 

[Hyperlite]

Originally posted by: JEDIYoda

"A very long pipeline turns out to be extremely inefficient," said Brookwood. "Therefore, although you felt good because you had a 3 GHz processor, in reality, it wasn't delivering any more performance than a 2 GHz processor with shorter pipelines. But it used a lot more power and generated a lot more heat."

BRILLIANT! :Q