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The Intel 386 SL Processor
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In October 1990, Intel released the 80386SL, which was basically an 855,000 transistor version of the 386SX processor, with cache, bus, and memory controllers, ISA compatibility and power management circuitry. It added a special system management mode (SMM), in which the BIOS could more easily perform power management and other functions without requiring OS support. The 386SL was the first chip specifically made for portable computers. |
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The Intel Celeron Processor
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The Celeron family is a line of budget x86 processors based on Pentium P6 designs. It is marketed by Intel as a second line to complement their more expensive but higher-performance Pentium CPUs. The first Celeron was introduced in April 1998 and based on the Pentium II. Later versions are based on the Pentium III and Pentium 4 designs.
The Celeron product concept was introduced by Intel in response to the company's loss of low-end market share, in particular to Cyrix's 6x86 and AMD's K6, but also to other competers such as the IDT Winchip. Intel's venerable Pentium MMX was no longer performance competitive and although a faster Pentium MMX would be cheap to make and technically straightforward, Intel preferred to move away from the industry standard Socket 7 platform (for which competitors made drop-in replacement CPUs) and produced a budget part that was pin-compatible with their high-end Pentium II product (Slot 1). For both technical and legal reasons, competitors had difficulty making Slot 1 parts.
References:
Intel Celeron Processor Home
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Intel Celeron 266 MHz, Engineering Sample |
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L806002Q-0323 | |
CONFIDENTIAL
266/66 Q525 ES A4 |
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Core Frequency: | 266 MHz | Board Frequency: | 66 MHz |
Clock Multiplier: | 4.0 | Data bus (ext.): | 64 Bit | Address bus: | 36 Bit | Transistors: | 7,500,000 | Circuit Size: | 0.25 µ | Voltage: | 2.0 V | Introduced: | April 15, 1998 | Manufactured: | week 06/1998 | L1 Cache: | 16+16 KB | CPU Code: | Celeron Covington | Intel S-Spec: |
Q525 |
Package Type: | SEPP-242 |
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The Intel Pentium III Xeon Processor
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The Pentium III Xeon was introduced in March 1999.
Early versions (Code named Tanner) where built in .25 micron technology and featured a 100MHz front side bus, 512KB to 2MB L2 off-die cache sizes and multiprocessor
support for up to 8 CPUs. In October 1999 Intel introduced the 2nd
generation PIII Xeon Cascades, using the same core as the .18 micron Pentium III Coppermine processor. As a result the Cascades has its 256KB on-die L2 cache
running at full clock speed and all the other Coppermine features like Advanced Transfer Cache, Advanced System Buffering, support for 133 MHz front speed bus,
SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions), etc.
However, the introduction of Cascades had some severe drawbacks: The small 256KB L2 cache took back the Xeon's
performance advance over the standard Pentium III and the 133MHz bus protocol did not support more than 2 CPUs in a system. In May 2000 Intel finally
released a "large cache" version with up to 2MB (on-die) L2 cache and 100MHz front side bus, again supporting multiprocessing with up to 8 CPUs.
References:
Intel Technical Documents
Pictures and Info at geek.com
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Intel Pentium III Xeon 80525KY500512, Engineering Sample |
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Pentium III Xeon
Intel Confidential Q882ES
48429874-0150 A4
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Core Frequency: | 500 MHz | Board Frequency: | 100 MHz |
Clock Multiplier: | 5.0 | Data bus (ext.): | 64 Bit | Address bus: | 36 Bit | Transistors: | 9,500,000 | Circuit Size: | 0.25 µ | Voltage: | 2.0 V | Introduced: | March 17, 1999 | Manufactured: | week 42/1998 | L1 Cache: | 16+16 KB | L2 Cache: | 512 KB | CPU Code: | Tanner | Intel S-Spec: |
Q882ES |
Package Type: | Plastic
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Intel Pentium III Xeon 80525KY5001M, Engineering Sample |
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Pentium III Xeon
Intel Confidential Q880ES
48519316-0037 A4
i(m)(c)'97 80525KY5001M |
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Core Frequency: | 500 MHz | Board Frequency: | 100 MHz |
Clock Multiplier: | 5.0 | Data bus (ext.): | 64 Bit | Address bus: | 36 Bit | Transistors: | 9,500,000 | Circuit Size: | 0.25 µ | Voltage: | 2.0 V | Introduced: | March 17, 1999 | Manufactured: | week 51/1998 | L1 Cache: | 16+16 KB | L2 Cache: | 1 MB | CPU Code: | Tanner | Intel S-Spec: |
Q880ES |
Package Type: | Plastic
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Intel Pentium III Xeon 80526KZ800256, Engineering Sample |
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Pentium III Xeon
Intel Confidential QJ312ES
90058007-0070 MALAY
i(m)(c)'98 80526KZ800256 |
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Core Frequency: | 800 MHz | Board Frequency: | 133 MHz |
Clock Multiplier: | 6.0 | Data bus (ext.): | 64 Bit | Address bus: | 36 Bit | Transistors: | 28,000,000 | Circuit Size: | 0.25 µ | Voltage: | 2.8, 5, 12 V | Introduced: | January 12, 2000 | Manufactured: | week 05/2000 | Made in: | Malaysia | L1 Cache: | 16+16 KB | L2 Cache: | 256 KB | CPU Code: | Cascades | Intel S-Spec: |
QJ312ES |
Package Type: | Plastic
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