A Tour Of The Pentium Pro Processor Microarchitecture
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Introduction
One of the Pentium Pro processor's primary goals was to significantly exceed the
performance of the 100MHz Pentium processor while being manufactured on the same
semiconductor process. Using the same process as a volume production processor
practically assured that the Pentium Pro pro ....
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.... standard with its pipelined,
superscalar microarchitecture. The Pentium processor's pipelined implementation
uses five stages to extract high throughput from the silicon - the Pentium Pro
processor moves to a decoupled, 12-stage, superpipelined implementation, trading
less work per pipestage for more stages. The Pentium Pro processor reduced its
pipestage time by 33 percent, compared with a Pentium processor, which means the
Pentium Pro processor can have a 33% higher clock speed than a Penti ....
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