pentium iii

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pentium iii - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Pentium III
  Pentium 3
  
     <processor, Intel> The microprocessor that was Intel Corporation
     's successor to the Pentium II, introduced in
     1999 with a 500 MHz clock rate.  The Pentim III is very
     similar to the Pentium II in architecture.  Its external bus
     can be clocked at 100 or 133 MHz, it can have up to 512 KB
     of secondary cache, and it comes in various packages
     including SECC2 and FC-PGA.
  
     The Pentium III has a P6 Dynamic Execution
     microarchitecture, a multi-transaction system bus, and
     MMX, like the Pentium II.  It adds Dual Independent Bus
     (DIB) Architecture, the Intel Processor Serial Number,
     Internet Streaming SIMD Extensions, 70 new instructions.
     Some versions also include an Advanced Transfer Cache and
     Advanced System Buffering.
  
     When Intel released a 1.13 GHz version of the Pentium III
     processor using a 0.18 micron fabrication process on
     2000-07-31, it was the world's highest performance
     microprocessor for PCs.
  
     (http://intel.com/PentiumIII).
  
     (2000-10-05)