July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1744 pages
35h 3m
English
The Previous Chapter
This chapter described the characteristics of the Xeon processor based on the Pentium® 4 technology. This Xeon includes no new software enhancements.
This Chapter
This chapter describes the hardware and software characteristics of the Pentium® M processor as well as an overview of the Centrino chipset. It includes:
The Pentium® M and Centrino.
Characteristics Overview.
The FSB Characteristics.
Enhanced Power Management Characteristics.
Three Different Packaging Models.
Improved Thermal Monitor Mode.
Enhanced Branch Prediction.
μop Fusion.
Advanced Stack Management.
Hardware-Based Data Prefetcher.
The L2 Cache.
The Data Cache and Hyper-Threading.
The Next Pentium® M.
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