Chapter 34. Pentium® 4 System Overview

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This chapter provided the roadmap of Pentium® 4-based products.

This Chapter

This chapter introduces the Pentium® 4 processor's relationships with the various system subsystems.

The Next Chapter

This chapter provides an overview of the Pentium® 4 processor. This includes:

  • The Pentium® 4 Processor Family.

  • Pentium® III/Pentium® 4 Differences.

  • Pentium® 4/Pentium® 4 Prescott Differences.

  • Pentium® 4 Processor Basic Organization.

  • The FSB is Tuned for Multiprocessing.

  • Intro to the FSB Enhancements.

  • IA Instructions and μops.

  • The Trace Cache.

  • The μop Pipeline.

  • The Alias Registers.

  • Speculative Execution.

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