PC Processors (Pentium 4 - Northwood)
Created by IBM PC Institute Personal Systems Reference (PSREF)
Intel→ Pentium→ 4 for high performance desktop systems  | 
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Code name  | Northwood | 
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MMX™ / Streaming SIMD  | MMX™ (57 new instructions) / Streaming SIMD Extensions (70 new instructions)  | |||
SSE2 | Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (144 new instructions)  | 
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3.06GHz with 533MHz and all 800MHz system bus processors:   | ||||
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L1 cache - bus  | 
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L1 data cache  | 8KB data cache /   | |||
L1 instruction cache  | Size not published / holds 12,000   | |||
  | called Execution Trace Cache; caches decoded x86 instructions   | |||
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L2 cache - size  | 512KB / full speed (Advanced Transfer Cache)  | 
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L3 cache  | None  | 
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System bus  | 400 or 533 or 800MHz (transfers data four times per clock) / address bus transfers at two times per clock /  | |||
  | 64 byte cache line size  | 
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Memory addressability  | 64GB memory addressability /   | |||
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Execution units  | 2 integer units; 1 floating point units; 1 load unit; 1 store unit  | 
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  | Two integer units (or Arithmetic Logic Units) run at two times core frequency (Rapid Execution Engine)  | |||
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Branch prediction  | Dynamic (based on history) / 4KB Branch Target Buffer  | 
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Speculative execution  | Yes (Advanced Dynamic Execution)  | 
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Math coprocessor  | Pipelined floating point unit / handles   | |||
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Compatibility  | Compatible with   | 
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Cache line size  | 128 bytes (32 bytes x 4 chunks); burst mode bus of   | |||
Multiple processors  | No SMP support  | 
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Technology (micron)  | 0.13u  | 
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Transistors  | ~55 million  | 
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Package and connector  | ||||
  | named mPGA478B socket | 
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Frequency  | 1.6GHz   | |||
and available date  | 1.8GHz   | |||
  | 2.0GHz   | |||
  | 1.8A GHz  | with 400MHz system bus: available July 2002  | 
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  | 2.0A GHz  | with 400MHz system bus: available January 2002 ("A" signifies the 0.13 micron version, not 0.18 micron)  | ||
  | 2.2GHz  | with 400MHz system bus: available January 2002  | 
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  | 2.26GHz with 533MHz system bus: available May 2002  | 
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  | 2.4GHz  | with 400MHz system bus: available April 2002  | 
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  | 2.4B GHz  | with 533MHz system bus: available May 2002  | 
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  | 2.4C GHz  | with 800MHz system bus: available May 2003  | with   | |
  | 2.5GHz  | with 400MHz system bus: available August 2002  | 
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  | 2.53GHz with 533MHz system bus: available May 2002  | 
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  | 2.6GHz  | with 400MHz system bus: available August 2002  | 
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  | 2.6C GHz  | with 800MHz system bus: available May 2003  | with   | |
  | 2.66GHz with 533MHz system bus: available August 2002  | 
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  | 2.8GHz  | with 533MHz system bus: available August 2002  | 
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  | 2.8C GHz  | with 800MHz system bus: available May 2003  | with   | |
  | 3.0GHz  | with 800MHz system bus: available April 2003  | with   | |
  | 3.0GHz  | with 400MHz system bus: available April 2003 (used in ThinkPad G40)  | ||
  | 3.06GHz  | with 533MHz system bus: available November 2002  | with   | |
  | 3.2GHz  | with 800MHz system bus: available June 2003  | with   | |
  | 3.4GHz  | with 800MHz system bus: available February 2004  | with   | |
Chipset support  | Intel 850 or 850E with dual channel RDRAM memory  | 
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  | Intel 845 with SDRAM or   | 
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  | Intel 865 family with single or dual channel   | |||
  | Intel 875P with single or dual channel   | |||
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All trademarks are the property of their respective owners  | (22INTEL) Compiled by Roger Dodson, IBM. February 2004  | 
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