What architecture is Pentium?
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What architecture is Pentium?
superscalar pipelined architecture
The Pentium has what is known as a “superscalar pipelined architecture.” Superscalar means that the CPU can execute two (or more) instructions per cycle. (To be more precise: The Pentium can generate the results of two instructions in a single clock cycle.)
Is Pentium III a processor?
The Pentium III (marketed as Intel Pentium III Processor, informally PIII or P3, and stylized as pentium !!!) brand refers to Intel’s 32-bit x86 desktop and mobile CPUs based on the sixth-generation P6 microarchitecture introduced on February 28, 1999.
What are the design features of Pentium processors?
Features of Pentium Processor are as follows:
- 64 bit data bus.
- 8 bytes of data information can be transferred to and from memory in a single bus cycle.
- Supports burst read and burst write back cycles.
- Supports pipelining.
- Instruction cache.
- 8 KB of dedicated instruction cache.
What are special Pentium registers discuss the architecture of special Pentium registers?
Each register is 32-bit long. First four register are used for data manipulation and next four register are used to hold address. There are some special-purpose registers in the x86 architecture such as Segment register, FLAGS register and EIP register.
What is dual pipeline architecture?
Dual pipelining or dual pipeline is one of computer pipelining technique to execute instructions in parallel. In case of instruction level parallelism, this world is almost equivalent to superscalar. In 1993, Intel P5 microarchitecture Pentium processors is introduced with dual-pipeling.
What is the difference between Pentium 3 and 4?
While the clock speeds of Pentium 3 processors ended at 1.4Ghz, Pentium 4 processors started out just a bit lower than that at 1.3Ghz and rising to as high as 3.8Ghz for the latest ones in the line.
