Monday, August 04, 2008

Intel's 15 Most Unforgettable x86 CPUs

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Intel's 15 Most Unforgettable x86 CPUs
01) 8086: The First PC processor (1979)
02) 80286: 16 MB Of Memory, But Still 16 Bits (1982)
03) 386: 32-Bit and Cache Memory (1985)
04) The 486: An FPU And Multipliers Too (1989)
05) Intel Pentium: A Bothersome Bug (1993, 1997)
06) Pentium Pro: The First To Handle Over 4 GB Of Memory (1995)
07) Pentium II and III: Brothers (1997, 1998, 1999)
08) Celeron and Xeon: Intel Aims At The High/Low End (1998)
09) The Pentium III Hits 1 GHz (1999)
10) The Pentium 4: A Lot Of Noise Over Very Little (2000, 2001, 2004)
11) Pentium M: Laptops Flex Their Muscles (2003, 2004)
12) Pentium 4 Gets 64-bit And Another Core (2005)
13) The First Mobile Dual-Core (2006)
14) Today's Hotness: The Core 2 Duo (2006)
15) The Future: Nehalem, Atom, Etc. (2008)

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