CPU/Mobo Intel Admits Pentium M Is Pentium III

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Intel Admits Pentium M Is Pentium III

But here's a secret that few outside the chip world know. While Intel execs have said the Pentium M was "built from the ground up" to suit their needs, it actually is a heavily modified version of the Pentium III chip Intel jettisoned back in 2000 in favor of the Pentium 4. "How do you make the Pentium 4 better? Use the Pentium III," scoff execs at rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD ).

PLAYING CATCH-UP. Adds former Intel chief chip architect Bob Colwell, who helped design the Pentium Pro, the original basis of the Pentium III: "We wrote a list of 20 to 30 items we would do to improve the PIII, but just left that list lying around. To their credit, the guys in Israel picked it up. But this is no radically new chip."
 
But most of us already knew that Alias, thanks for the information anyway!

If you head over to Arstechnica (by far my favourite technology site), John 'Hannibal' Stokes regularly carries architectural reviews of all modern day microprocessors. He's analysed the entire Pentium, PowerPC and Athlon histories. Then he's also looked and evaluated PPC based Cell and Xenon processors used in the PS3 and XBox 360. His stuff is a must read for any CPU enthusiast.

Here's the Pentium M link

And go here see a list of all his technical articles
 
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