THE PENTIUM PROCESSOR 555
16.6 | Pentium-IV
In November 2000, Intel introduced its seventh generation processor Pentium-IV, which had
high clock speeds (starting from 1.5 GHz) as an important feature, and a totally new architec-
tural feature called the ‘netburst’ architecture which includes the following:
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Hyper Pipelined Technology
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400MHz System Bus
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Execution Trace Cache
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Rapid Execution Engine
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Advanced Transfer Cache
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Advanced Dynamic Execution
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Enhanced Floating Point and Multimedia Unit
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Streaming SIMD Extensions 2
We will not discuss all these in detail here – instead, we will talk about the new trends in proces-
sor design.
16.7 | Latest Trends in Microprocessor Design
With clock speeds reaching very high values, which leads to ...