9. Budditha Hettige
http://www.dscs.sjp.ac.lk/~budditha/index.html
Microprocessor HistoryMicroprocessor History
• Intel 80486 (1989)
– Max. CPU clock rate 16 MHz to 100 MHz
– FSB speeds 16 MHz to 50 MHz
– Instruction set x86 (IA-32)
– An 8 KB on-chip SRAM cache stores
– 486 has a 32-bit data bus and a 32-bit address bus.
– Power Management Features and System Management
Mode (SMM) became a standard feature
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10. Budditha Hettige
http://www.dscs.sjp.ac.lk/~budditha/index.html
Microprocessor HistoryMicroprocessor History
• Intel Pentium I (1993)
– Intel's 5th generation micro architecture
– Operated at 60 MHz
– powered at 5V and generated enough heat to require a CPU
cooling fan
– Level 1 CPU cache from 16 KB to 32 KB
– Contained 4.5 million transistors
– compatible with the common Socket 7 motherboard
configuration
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11. Budditha Hettige
http://www.dscs.sjp.ac.lk/~budditha/index.html
Microprocessor HistoryMicroprocessor History
• Intel Pentium II (1997)
– Intel's sixth-generation microarchitecture
– 296-pin Staggered Pin Grid Array (SPGA) package
(Socket 7)
– speeds from 233 MHz to 450 MHz
– Instruction set IA-32, MMX
– cache size was increased to 512 KB
– better choice for consumer-level operating systems, such as
Windows 9x, and multimedia applications
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13. Budditha Hettige
http://www.dscs.sjp.ac.lk/~budditha/index.html
Microprocessor HistoryMicroprocessor History
• Intel Pentium IV (2000)
– Max. CPU clock rate 1.3 GHz to 3.8 GHz
– Instruction set x86 (i386), x86-64, MMX, SSE, SSE2,
SSE3
– featured Hyper-Threading Technology (HTT)
– The 64-bit external data bus
– More than 42 million transistors
– Processor (front-side) bus runs at 400MHz, 533MHz,
800MHz, or 1066MHz
– L2 cache can handle up to 4GB RAM
– 2MB of full-speed L3 cache
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