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First Intel Pentium Chip Came Out 33 Years Ago

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<https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-released-its-first-pentium-chip-on-this-day-33-years-ago-came-packing-3-1-million-transistors-fifth-gen-x86-chip-built-on-an-800nm-process>

One thing that article doesn’t mention was how enormous the chip
package was -- it was about the size of a VHS videocassette.

1993 was also the year the Apple-IBM-Motorola alliance first showed
off their PowerPC chips. Those initial 60- and 66-MHz Pentiums were
the butt of merciless jokes, not just over their inferior performance,
but how it looked even worse if you compared performance per watt of
power consumed.

About a year or two later, Intel switched to a new fab process, and
brought out the Pentium-90. That’s when the tables started to turn
against PowerPC.

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First Intel Pentium Chip Came Out 33 Years Ago Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-22 23:12 +0000
  Re: First Intel Pentium Chip Came Out 33 Years Ago Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-22 23:43 +0000
    Re: First Intel Pentium Chip Came Out 33 Years Ago Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-03-23 03:21 +0000
      Re: First Intel Pentium Chip Came Out 33 Years Ago Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2026-03-23 09:55 +0000

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