Posted: May 05, 2006 • 11:04 am
Correct. They wanted all future Intel CPUs to be trademarkable.michel pronk wrote:to be honest they droped the x86 names becouse it was too easy for the competition to make clones with that name.
Just to make things clear:michel pronk wrote:386
486
586 The first pentiums
686 the pentiums II
786 The Pentium III
886 The XEON
986 The Pentium IV
1086 The Pentium IV with Hyper Threading
just a idee i had i could be verry wrong thoug becouse where is the CELERON in all of this list
8086
80286
(80)386
486
586 - Trademarked by Intel as the Intel Pentium ('Pent' meaning 5th generation.
686 - Pentium Pro (1996), Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium M and Intel Core
786 - Pentium 4 (Netburst Core, a new X86 generation microarchitecture unveiled in 2000.
Nope.Chris_NGB wrote:Celerons are basically overclocked pII's
The Intel Celerons are basically Pentium II through 4 with half the L2 cache disabled. Basically, if during chip fabrication tests there is an error in a Pentium (II, III or 4)'s L2 cache that means anything up to 50% of the cache is faulty, the good cache is kept and halved for simplicity, then branded a Celeron. Bingo. Instant budget CPU. This is why many regard Celerons as 'crippled' or 'castrated'. There are situations where it has been easier to overclock a Celeron for value for money (like the first Celeron), but this was more specific to the earlier Celerons.
Therefore, Celerons from PIIs and PIIIs are 686, and Celerons from P4s are 786.