March 22, 1993 · Computer or hardware
Intel Pentium (1993)
Named Pentium, not 586, so it could be trademarked.
3.1 million transistors on an 800 nm process in Socket 4; the first shipping system was ALR Evolution V in mid-1993, and the FDIV bug surfaced in 1994.
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Facts
- Date
- March 22, 1993
- Kind
- Computer or hardware
- Maker or publisher
- Intel
- CPU
- Pentium (P5)
- CPU speed
- 60 / 66 MHz
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Related
- Intel 486DX2 (predecessor, 1992)
- Intel Pentium Pro (successor, 1995)
- Pentium FDIV bug reaches the news (same series, 1994)
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