Pentium
Core p Process Clock rates L1 cache FSB Socket Release date
P5 0.8 μm 60-66 MHz 16 KB 60-66 MHz Socket 4 March 1993
P54C 0.6 μm 75-120 MHz 16 KB 50-66 MHz Socket 5 October 1994
P54CS 0.35 μm 133-200 MHz 16 KB 60-66 MHz Socket 7 June 1995
P55C 0.35 μm 120-233 MHz 32 KB 60-66 MHz Socket 7 January 1997
Tillamook 0.25 μm 166-300 MHz 32 KB 66 MHz Socket 7 August 1997
Pentium-branded processors -- P5 microarchitecture based
Main article : List of Intel Pentium microprocessors
Pentium is a brand used for a series of x86 architecture-compatible microprocessors produced by Intel since 1993. In their form , Pentium processors are considered entry-level products that Intel rates as two stars, meaning that they are above the low-end Atom and Celeron series, but below the faster Core i3, i5, i7, i9, and workstation Xeon series. , Pentium processors have little more than their name in common with earlier Pentiums, which were Intel's flagship processor for over a decade until the introduction of the Intel Core line in 2006. They are based on both the architecture used in Atom and that of Core processors. In the case of Atom architectures, Pentiums are the highest performance implementations of the architecture. Pentium processors with Core architectures prior to 2017 were distinguished from the faster, higher-end i-series processors by lower clock rates and disabling some features, such as hyper-threading, virtualization and sometimes L3 cache. The name Pentium is originally derived from the Greek word penta (πεντα), meaning five, a reference to the prior numeric naming convention of Intel's 80x86 processors (8086-80486), with the Latin ending -ium. In 2017, Intel split Pentium into two line-ups. Pentium Silver aiming for low-power devices and shares architecture with Atom and Celeron. Pentium Gold aiming for entry-level desktop and using existing architecture, such as Kaby Lake or Coffee Lake.