This means that at 100 MHz, the Athlon front side bus actually transfers at a rate similar to a 200 MHz single data rate bus ( referred to as 200 MT / s ), which was superior to the method used on Intel's Pentium III ( with SDR bus speeds of 100 MHz and 133 MHz ).

It launched with superior performance over all other x86 processors available at the time, including Intel's flagship Pentium III, in every benchmark.

The Athlon Classic is a cartridge-based processor, named Slot A and similar to Intel's cartridge Slot 1 used for Pentium II and Pentium III.

It was also made pin-compatible with Intel's Pentium, enabling it to be used in the widely available " Socket 7 "- based motherboards.

With the buyout of NexGen, AMD was able to come back into the game with a processor that could perform competitively with Intel's Pentium II.

The Pentium was Intel's primary microprocessor for personal computers during the mid-1990s.

A NASA study recently placed the complexity of a clanking replicator at approximately that of Intel's Pentium 4 CPU.

VLB importantly offered an affordable high speed interface for consumer systems, as only by 1996 was PCI commonly available outside of the server market via the Pentium and Intel's Triton chipset.

Introduced in 2004 along with the Prescott revision of the Pentium 4 processor, SSE3 added specific memory and thread-handling instructions to boost the performance of Intel's HyperThreading technology.

In the late 1990s, the idea of executing instructions from multiple threads simultaneously, known as simultaneous multithreading, had reached desktops with Intel's Pentium 4 processor, under the name hyper threading.

Experience with the i860 influenced the MMX functionality later added to Intel's Pentium processors.

Since Intel's Pentium has ( as do several other processors ) a 64-bit bus width, it requires SIMMs installed in matched pairs in order to complete the data bus.

Intel and Microsoft, once the closest of partners, have operated at an uneasy distance from one another since their first major dispute, which had to do with Intel's heavy investment in the 32-bit optimized Pentium Pro and Microsoft's delivery of an unexpectedly high proportion of 16-bit code in Windows 95.

Hyper-threading ( officially Hyper-Threading Technology or HT Technology, abbreviated HTT or HT ) is Intel's term for its simultaneous multithreading implementation first appearing in February 2002 on its Xeon server processors and in November 2002 on its Pentium 4 desktop CPUs.

Previous generations of Intel's processors based on the Core microarchitecture do not have Hyper-Threading, because the Core microarchitecture is a descendant of the P6 microarchitecture used in iterations of Pentium since the Pentium Pro through the Pentium III and the Celeron ( Covington, Mendocino, Coppermine and Tualatin-based ) and the Pentium II Xeon and Pentium III Xeon models.

This bias in favor of the Pentium served to boost the popularity of Intel's Pentium CPUs amongst the gaming community.

Because the 6x86 was more efficient on an instructions-per-cycle basis than Intel's Pentium, and because Cyrix sometimes used a faster bus speed than either Intel or AMD, Cyrix and competitor AMD co-developed the controversial PR system in an effort to compare its products more favorably with Intel's.

The follow-on 1997 Cyrix-Intel litigation was the reverse: instead of Intel claiming that Cyrix 486 chips violated their patents, now Cyrix claimed that Intel's Pentium Pro and Pentium II violated Cyrix patents — in particular, power management and register renaming techniques.

The settlement didn't say whether the Pentium Pro violated Cyrix patents or not ; it simply allowed Intel to carry on making them either way — exactly as the previous settlement sidestepped Intel's claim that the Cyrix 486 violated Intel patents.

In Intel's " Family / Model / Stepping " scheme, the Pentium Pro is family 6, model 1, and its Intel Product code is 80521.

In 2002 Apple announced the rack mounted server Xserve, in 2003 the consumer-oriented iSight and the Power Mac G5, in 2004 the redesigned Apple Cinema Displays, in 2005 the transition of Apple computers from IBM's PowerPC microprocessor line to Intel's line of x86 processors, and in 2006 the Xeon-based Mac Pro and Xserve.

Slot 1 refers to the physical and electrical specification for the connector used by some of Intel's microprocessors, including the Pentium Pro, Celeron, Pentium II and the Pentium III.

The original Athlon ( now called Athlon Classic ) was the first seventh-generation x86 processor and, in a first, retained the initial performance lead it had over Intel's competing processors for a significant period of time.

Intel's successor to the P5 architecture, P6, added superscalar capabilities to its floating point features, and therefore afforded a significant increase in floating point instruction performance.

* High performance CPUs: while RISC in its early days ( early 1980s ) offered roughly an order-of-magnitude performance improvement over CISC processors of comparable cost, one particular family of CISC processors, Intel's x86, always had the edge in market share and the economies of scale that this implied.

The chips were widely criticized in product reviews for not offering the performance suggested by their names, and for the confusion caused by their naming similarity with Intel's SL line and IBM's SLC line of CPUs, neither of which was related to Cyrix's SLC.

Meanwhile, the MediaGX faced pressure from Intel's and AMD's budget chips, which also continued to get less expensive while offering much greater performance.

With better performance in most applications than an Intel Pentium processor at 75 MHz, the Cyrix Cx5x86 filled a gap by providing a medium-performance processor option for 486 Socket 3 motherboards ( which are incapable of handling Intel's Pentium CPUs, apart from the Pentium Overdrive ).

The letters PR stood for " Performance Rating ", but many people mistakenly thought it stood for " Pentium Rating ", as the PR was often used to measure performance against Intel's Pentium processor.

The continuation of this practice, despite lower performance per clock, led consumers to conclude that AMD's Athlon XP processors, because they had much slower clock speeds than Intel's Pentium 4 processors, were inferior to Intel's Pentium 4 microprocessors.

One such example of this criticism suggests the performance still significantly lagged Intel's Pentium M ( Banias ) and AMD's Mobile Athlon XP.

It rapidly established an excellent reputation in the marketplace and offered a favorable price / performance ratio versus Intel's Celeron 300A.

The base design was unchanged ( the addition of SSE instructions was at that time of no performance significance ) but Intel's new production process allowed clockspeed improvements, and it became difficult to determine which company's part was the faster.

Intel beat AMD to market by nearly four years, but AMD priced its 40 MHz 486 at or below Intel's price for a 33 MHz chip, offering about 20 % better performance for the same price.

While competing 486 chips, such as those from Cyrix, benchmarked lower than the equivalent Intel chip, AMD's 486 matched Intel's performance on a clock-for-clock basis.

Intel's DX4 chips initially had twice the cache of the AMD chips, giving them a slight performance edge, but AMD's DX4-100 usually cost less than Intel's DX2-66.

IGPs like the Intel's HD Graphics 3000 and AMD's Fusion IGPs have improved performance that may match cheap dedicated graphic cards, but still lag behind the more expensive dedicated graphics cards.

Compared to Intel's x86 microprocessors at the time, this feature offered a substantial performance boost to applications designed to take advantage of the AltiVec unit.

This method of specifying processor performance helped consumers understand where the WinChip's performance fit in against Intel's competing products.

The Cyrix Cx486SLC was Cyrix's first CPU offering, released after years of selling coprocessors that competed with Intel's units and offered better performance at a comparable or lower price.

Despite many successes, RISC has made few inroads into the desktop PC and commodity server markets, where Intel's x86 platform remains the dominant processor architecture.