Pentium III

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Pentium III
Pentium 3

   <processor, Intel> The {microprocessor} that was {Intel
   Corporation}'s successor to the {Pentium II}, introduced in
   1999 with a 500 {MHz} {clock rate}.  The Pentim III is very
   similar to the Pentium II in architecture.  Its external {bus}
   can be clocked at 100 or 133 MHz, it can have up to 512 {KB}
   of {secondary cache}, and it comes in various packages
   including {SECC2} and {FC-PGA}.

   The Pentium III has a {P6} {Dynamic Execution}
   {microarchitecture}, a {multi-transaction system bus}, and
   {MMX}, like the Pentium II.  It adds {Dual Independent Bus}
   (DIB) Architecture, the {Intel Processor Serial Number},
   Internet {Streaming SIMD Extensions}, 70 new instructions.
   Some versions also include an {Advanced Transfer Cache} and
   {Advanced System Buffering}.

   When Intel released a 1.13 {GHz} version of the Pentium III
   processor using a 0.18 {micron} fabrication process on
   2000-07-31, it was the world's highest performance
   microprocessor for PCs.

   (http://intel.com/PentiumIII).

   (2000-10-05)
    

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