Ken Shirriff on Nostr: Intel's Pentium processor (1993) was a big jump in processor performance, starting a ...

Intel's Pentium processor (1993) was a big jump in processor performance, starting a brand that lasted until 2023. But what's inside the Pentium chip? How did Intel organize its 3.3 million transistors? Let's take a look inside and see the chip's "standard cells". 1/21