Enlarged color photograph of the Intel® Pentium® processor package. Clock speeds: 60 MHz (100 MIPS, 70.4 SPECint92, 55.1 SPECfp92 on Xpress 256K L2). 66 MHz (112 MIPS, 77.9 SPECint92, 63.6 SPECfp92 on Xpress 256K L2). Number of transistors: 3.1 million (.8 micron, BiCMOS). Bus width: 64 bits (external data bus), 32 bits (address bus). Addressable memory: 4 gigabytes. Virtual memory: 64 terabytes. Pin count: 273 (Pin Grid Array Package). Although the first Pentium® processors rolled off the manufacturing line on 6-inch wafers, 8-inch Pentium processor wafers were later produced. The Pentium® processor allowed computers to more easily incorporate "real world" data such as speech, sound, handwriting and photographic images. The name Pentium®, mentioned in the comics and on television talk shows, became a household word soon after introduction.
Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Microprocessor packages; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Semiconductor wafers; Technology
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