A little history about "Pentium"

[tidus1203]

Intel 80486 aka 486 - intel tried to trademark this
name, but a court decided that numbers could not be
trademarked, therefore AMD and others
could use "486" in their processors names.

Because of this, Intel went to marketing company to
created a trademarkable name for it's next generation
(fifth) processor 80586. These marketing company
created the "Pentium" brand name. Pent, meaning
five for the fifth generation processor. Some
people started called it the P5 for processor five.

Intel's six generation processor was called the P6.
This processor started off as the Pentium Pro and
went right up to Pentium 3. Intel was in a
big dilema because the Pentium brand name was
very, very sucessful and finding a name for it's
new processor was a great challenge. So Intel
decided to call P6, the Pentium Pro and kept
calling each modification of the P6 core as
Pentium II and Pentium III. This is when
the numbering like P2 for Pentium II and
P3 for Pentium III came about.

Intel's Merced chip was codenamed P7. This is
the known as the Itanium Processor today.

The Pentium 4 is now know as the P4.

It's very confusing because the "Pentium" brand name
became so famous and Intel wanted to keep that
name is people mind when they went to purchase a new PC.

There ends the history lesson of today.

[tidus1203]

BUMP! So everyone can read!

[Jeffreyw]

Inter or Pentium= Good marketing, bad product.

[ziggyboy]

There was a nicely-constructed joke about this years ago. I don't remember the exact wording (as it was much more funnier) but the punchline goes something like when Intel tried to solve 486+100 on their new CPU, it came out 585.99999999999.

[tidus1203]

I still believe that Pentium is the best CPU out there. Its reliability is well known!

[lance_88]

yung "itanium PC" ay 64-bit super computer. it will be available ata sa 2003 or 2004. :)

[kelunji]

Originally posted by ziggyboy
There was a nicely-constructed joke about this years ago. I don't remember the exact wording (as it was much more funnier) but the punchline goes something like when Intel tried to solve 486+100 on their new CPU, it came out 585.99999999999.

this was the infamous "Pentium glitch" wherein there was a certain equation that would give give an erroneous solution when computed on a PC running an early edition of the pentium chip.

[Gatcho]

Originally posted by lance_88
yung "itanium PC" ay 64-bit super computer. it will be available ata sa 2003 or 2004. :)
64bit super computer or processor? kung super computer nga eh mejo ndi big deal sa atin yun since ndi naman ganun ginagamit natin sa bahay eh ;) pero yung 64bit processor ng AMD eh ang alam ko ire-release bago matapos ang 1st quarter ng '03

[tidus1203]

The CPU war is heatin up again! When intel released the 3.06GHz Hyper-Threading Pentium, AMD lost quite a momentum! They said that AMD of higher clocks 2.4GHz and above were not good. And now AMD will get the 64 bit CPU's out before Intel. WAR!