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Computing | Pentium n. The name given to Intel's P5 chip, the successor to the 80486. The name was chosen because of difficulties Intel had in trademarking a number. It suggests the number five (implying 586) while (according to Intel) conveying a meaning of strength "like titanium". Among hackers, the plural is frequently `pentia'. See also Pentagram Pro. Intel did not stick to this convention when naming its P6 processor the Pentium Pro; many believe this is due to difficulties in selling a chip with "hex" or "sex" in its name. Successor chips have been called `Pentium II', `Pentium III', and `Pentium IV'. Source: Jargon File. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Pentium is an x86 architecture microprocessor by Intel which first shipped on March 22, 1993. It is the successor to the 486 line. The Pentium was originally to be named 80586 or i586, but the name was changed to Pentium because numbers could not be trademarked.
Major changes from the 486:
The earliest Pentiums had a clock speed of 66 MHz, with a 60 MHz version also being produced. Later on 75, 90, 120, 133, 150, 166, 200, and 233 MHz versions gradually became available. Pentium Overdrive processors were released at speeds of 63 and 83MHz as an upgrade option for older 486-class computers.
The original Pentium microprocessor had the internal code name P5, and was a pipelined in-order superscalar microprocessor. This was followed by the P54C, a compaction which was dual-processor ready. Subsequently, the P55C was released as the Pentium with MMX Technology (usually just called Pentium MMX); it was based on the P5 core, but had significant changes for MMX and improved instruction decoding.
In early 5 volt 60 MHz and 66 MHz Pentiums, a problem in the floating point unit code when doing division was discovered in 1994 and is known as the Pentium FDIV bug. These early examples of Pentium processors were also known for their fragility and relatively high levels of heat-production.
Intel has retained the Pentium brand name for later generations of processor architectures, which are internally quite different from the Pentium itself:
See also List of Intel microprocessors
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pentium."
Crosswords: PENTIUM |
| Specialty definitions using "PENTIUM": 586 ♦ 686 ♦ Accelerated Graphics Port, Artemis microkernel ♦ BSD/OS ♦ Celeron, cellular multiprocessing, clock rate, Convergent Technologies Operating System, Cyrix, Cyrix 6x86 ♦ Flip Chip Pin Grid Array, Frankenputer, FreeBSD, front side bus ♦ Intel 4004, Intel 486DX, Intel 80x86, Intel Corporation ♦ K6 ♦ Matrix Math eXtensions, Memory Type Range Registers, MESI protocol, MINIX, Moore's Law ♦ NEXTSTEP ♦ P6, Pentium 2, Pentium 3, Pentium II, Pentium II Xeon, Pentium III, Pentium Pro, Peripheral Component Interconnect, Pipeline Burst Cache, Plastic Pin Grid Array, protected mode ♦ QNX ♦ Single Edge Contact, Single Edge Contact Cartridge, sl, Slot 1, Slot 2, Socket 7, SSE-2 ♦ Windows 2000, wintel ♦ x86 processor socket, Xeon. (references) |
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Business | Pentium II and III are preferred and home computers account for a major portion of the demand. (references) | |
The average selling price for a Pentium I (166 MHz processor) is Pak Rupees 11,000 (US$ 212.4). Other than freight and insurance costs, importers are required to pay a 6 percent income tax on all imports of computers and peripherals. (references) | ||
Similarly, local newspapers reported that Chinese government agencies discouraged the use of Pentium III chips because they believed that a back door exists in each Pentium III chip to enable Intel or others to collect user information-a policy that appears to have had little impact. (references) | ||
Economic History | Uzbekistan | The most popular processor is Celeron-600 MHz. The price for Pentium III-based computers depending on options varies from USD 800 to USD 2, 500. AMD processors still cannot compete price-wise with Intel products. (references) |
India | Intel has captured the desktop microprocessor market with their Pentium and Celeron brands. (references) | |
Ghana | There is a rising demand for used Pentium computers. (references) | |
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| "PENTIUM" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 86.80% of the time. "PENTIUM" is used about 303 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 86.8% | 263 | 18,193 |
| Noun (singular) | 10.23% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (common) | 2.97% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 303 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "PENTIUM": Pentium 2 ♦ Pentium 3 ♦ Pentium II ♦ Pentium II Xeon ♦ Pentium III ♦ Pentium Pro. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "PENTIUM": pentium-based, pentium-class, pentium-compatible, pentium-only, pentium-ready, pentium-shaped, pentium-specific, pentium-upgradable. | |
Ending with "PENTIUM": Multi-pentium, Nt-on-pentium. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pentium 4 | 2,903 | athlon vs pentium | 40 |
pentium iii | 1,976 | pentium 4 computer | 38 |
pentium | 643 | pentium 3 processor | 33 |
intel pentium | 257 | pentium iii cpu | 32 |
pentium ii | 238 | intel pentium processor | 30 |
pentium 5 | 185 | pentium pro | 29 |
intel pentium 4 | 147 | 4 celeron pentium vs | 27 |
pentium 4 processor | 137 | pentium motherboard | 26 |
pentium processor | 84 | pentium computer | 25 |
celeron vs pentium | 78 | pentium celeron | 25 |
buy ii mobile pentium | 64 | pentium 4 m | 25 |
pentium mmx | 64 | intel pentium iii | 25 |
m pentium | 61 | pentium 4 laptop | 23 |
pentium 4 motherboard | 56 | 4sda epox overclock pentium | 23 |
pentium 2 | 56 | pentium iii motherboard | 22 |
intel pentium 4 processor | 54 | pentium v | 21 |
pentium 4 cpu | 53 | pentium ii motherboard | 20 |
pentium iv | 51 | pentium 3 motherboard | 20 |
pentium iii processor | 47 | intel pentium 5 | 20 |
amd vs pentium | 40 | intel pentium 3 | 19 |
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| Language | Translations for "PENTIUM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | å¥"è…¾. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | entiumpay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "PENTIUM": unnilpentium. (additional references) | |
Words containing "PENTIUM": unnilpentiums. (additional references) | |
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"PENTIUM" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Centium, Panicum, Pensiamo, Penteon, Pentii, Petkim, ponticum, Pythium, Sentinum, Sextium. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pinetum. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-m-n-p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: impute, minuet, minute, mutine, pitmen, uptime. | |
-2 letters: inept, input, tempi, unite, unmet, untie. | |
-3 letters: emit, etui, item, menu, mien, mine, mint, mite, muni, mute, neum, nite, pein, pent, pine, pint, punt, temp, time, tine, tump, tune, unit. | |
-4 letters: emu, imp, men, met, mun, mut, net, nim, nip, nit, nut, pen, pet, pie, pin, pit. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-m-n-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: impudent, tumpline. | |
+2 letters: equipment, importune, imprudent, neptunium, penultima, permuting, pneumatic, tumplines. | |
+3 letters: bethumping, equipments, importuned, importuner, importunes, impudently, impunities, manipulate, multipaned, neptuniums, penultimas, peritoneum, plummeting, punishment, resumption, trumpeting, unemphatic. | |
+4 letters: antependium, computernik, consumptive, importunate, importunely, importuners, impoundment, imprudently, intercampus, manipulated, manipulates, mucoprotein, penultimate, peritoneums, permutation, planetarium, pneumonitis, premunition, presumption, punishments, recomputing, reequipment, resumptions. | |
+5 letters: antependiums, computerniks, consumptives, impetiginous, impoundments, incomputable, manipulative, minicomputer, mucoproteins, multiplexing, multipronged, outcompeting, overtrumping, permutations, phillumenist, planetariums, pneumaticity, precomputing, premunitions, presumptions, pseudonymity, reassumption, reequipments, supereminent, unimportance, unnilpentium, xiphisternum. | |
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