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2024-09-01 16:17:34
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Ken Shirriff on Nostr: The weaving is not just a Pentium but specifically the P54C revision of the original ...

The weaving is not just a Pentium but specifically the P54C revision of the original Pentium. The first Pentium chips were too hot and slow. Intel fixed this by a) moving from 800 nm to 600 nm, b) dropping the voltage from 5V to 3.3V, and c) adding a clock driver that could stop the clock to idle parts of the chip. Intel also added 200,000 transistors to support multiprocessing; circuitry that is visible in the rug. My photo shows the P5 on the left and the smaller P54C on the right. 3/6

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