[1] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

pentium n. the name given to intel's p5 chip, the successor to the
   80486. the name was chosen because of difficulties intel had in
   trademarking a number. it suggests the number five implying 586 while
   according to intel conveying a meaning of strength "like titanium".
   among hackers, the plural is frequently `pentia'. see also pentagram
   pro.

   intel did not stick to this convention when naming its p6 processor
   the pentium pro; many believe this is due to difficulties in selling a
   chip with "hex" or "sex" in its name. successor chips have been called
   `pentium ii', `pentium iii', and `pentium iv'.


see also:
pentagram pro 

[2] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

pentium
     
         intel's superscalar successor to the 486.
        it has two 32-bit 486-type integer pipelines with dependency
        checking.  it can execute a maximum of two instructions per
        cycle.  it does pipelined floating-point and performs
        branch prediction.  it has 16 kilobytes of on-chip
        cache, a 64-bit memory interface, 8 32-bit general-purpose
        registers and 8 80-bit floating-point registers.  it is
        built from 3.1 million transistors on a 262.4 mm^2 die with
        ~2.3 million transistors in the core logic.  its clock rate
        is 66mhz, heat dissipation is 16w, integer performance is 64.5
        specint92, floating-point performance 56.9 specfp92.
     
        it is called "pentium" because it is the fifth in the 80x86
        line.  it would have been called the 80586 had a us court not
        ruled that you can't trademark a number.
     
        the successors are the pentium pro and pentium ii.
     
        a floating-point division bug
        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/pub/carlton/pentium/faq was discovered in
        october 1994.
     
        internal implementation, "microprocessor report" newsletter,
        1993-03-29, volume 7, number 4.
     
        pentium based computers, pc magazine, 1994-01-25.
     
        1997-11-21
     
     
see also:
intel superscalar 486 pipelines floating-point branch prediction 
kilobytes cache registers clock rate specint92 
specfp92 pentium pro pentium ii lt;floating-point division buggt; 

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