| (processor, Intel) | Pentium III - The microprocessor that was Intel Corporation's successor to the Pentium II, introduced in
1999 with a 500 MHz clock rate. The Pentim III is very
similar to the Pentium II in architecture. Its external bus
can be clocked at 100 or 133 MHz, it can have up to 512 KB
of secondary cache, and it comes in various packages
including SECC2 and FC-PGA.
The Pentium III has a P6 Dynamic Execution
microarchitecture, a multi-transaction system bus, and
MMX, like the Pentium II. It adds Dual Independent Bus
(DIB) Architecture, the Intel Processor Serial Number,
Internet Streaming SIMD Extensions, 70 new instructions.
Some versions also include an Advanced Transfer Cache and
Advanced System Buffering.
When Intel released a 1.13 GHz version of the Pentium III
processor using a 0.18 micron fabrication process on
2000-07-31, it was the world's highest performance
microprocessor for PCs.
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