On this day in history- March 22, 1993- Intel shipped the first chips to have the now ubiquitous brand name of Pentium. Today, an Intel Pentium processor can muscle up to 3.4GHz of processing power, offer 64GB of addressable memory and a 2048kb L2 cache. Comparatively, the first Pentium branded microprocessor, the P5, launched with a clock speed of 60 or 66MHz and a 16kb L1 cache. For a detailed history of the Pentium chips, check out this great ArsTechnica article by John Stokes: http://arstechnica.com/features/2004/07/pentium-1/
the more tech savvy might want to check out this article on microprocessor types and specifications by Scott Mueller: http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.aspx?p=482324&seqNum=16
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