IntelŪ PentiumŪ III Processor

The IntelŪ PentiumŪ III processor will be Intel's highest performance processor for the desktop. Its expanded instruction set offers superb performance for emerging usage models such as 3D graphics and speech, as well as boosting network TCP/IP performance and other applications.

The Pentium III processor offers a robust, new instruction set and architecture enhancements which include:

• frequencies of 500MHz and 450MHz
• integrated PBSRAM L2 cache (512K)
• 100MHz system bus
• 70 new instructions, including Streaming SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) Extensions for enhanced application performance
• memory streaming architecture
• concurrent SIMD-FP architecture
• new media instructions

These architecture and instruction improvements enable these rich media/data types:

• real-time MPEG2 encode/decode
• 3D graphics
• AC3 audio, speech
• complex imaging effects
• realistic physics
• single processor configurations for desktop and dual-processor configurations for workstations and servers

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