Apr 10
The Intel 80486 microprocessor (alias i486 or Intel486) was a higher performance follow up on the Intel 80386. It was the first x86 chip to use more than a million transistors, due to a large on-chip cache and an integrated floating point unit. It represented …
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Jan 26
It was codenamed Deschutes. It didn’t offer much of a performance boost over its predecessor, a 300 MHZ chip. However, using a new fabrication process allowed for a smaller die size and less power consumption.
Read more about Pentium II chips at http://www.pcguide.com/ref/cpu/fam/g6PII-c.htm
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