BEYOND PENTIUM–MORE ADVANCED PROCESSORS 17-9
17.5.3 | Problems Encountered by Netburst
Pentium-IV was the first processor with Netburst. Many other Netburst-based proces-
sors followed soon after.
However, this microarchitecture did not turn out to be the huge success it was envis-
aged to be. Netburst was targeted for high-clock frequency operations and it could operate
at these frequencies, but a considerable amount of heat was generated and this turned
out to be the undoing of the processor. Intel stopped using Netburst by around 2004, and
diverted its design efforts in more promising directions.
17.6 | The Continued Dominance of x86
Around the turn of the century, when the x86-32 ISA was in dominance, Intel started a review
of its x86 philosoph ...