May 2024
Intermediate to advanced
889 pages
30h 8m
English
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The X 86 Microprocessors: Architecture, Programming and Interfacing (8086 to Pentium) 2nd Edition by Pearson
by Lyla B. Das
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x86 MICROPROCESSORS
14.16 | The Pentium Processor
Now, we will come to Intel’s most popular name in processors, i.e., Pentium. In 1993,
Intel developed its fifth generation x86 processor and decided to call it 80586 (according
to the convention followed till then), but to keep away competitors such as AMD and a
few others, Intel wanted to trade mark this processor title. However, the lawsuit that fol-
lowed, declared that numbers cannot be trademarked, and hence, Intel had to find a new
name for its new processor, and that is how the word Pentium came into being. It is also
called P5. The name Pentium was derived from the Greek word ...
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