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PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 9:15 am    Post subject: pipelining Reply with quote

In which Intel processor (X86) was pipelining first introdued????
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PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 9:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Intel i486, otherwise known as the 80486, was the first tightly pipelined x86 design. Introduced in 1989, it was also the first x86 chip to use more than a million transistors, due to a large on-chip cache and an integrated floating point unit.
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PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 12:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah, large cache : 8kB ! Wink
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PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 12:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

8 kB requires 384000 transistors, third part of all!
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PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 3:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

how many stages of piplinig is present in 80486?? Smile
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PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 3:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

how many stages of piplinig is present in 80486?? Smile
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PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 4:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Five stages for 486.
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PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 10:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Five stages for 486.
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