Pentium III
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The Pentium III[2] (marketed as Intel Pentium III Processor and Pentium !!!, informally PIII or P3) brand refers to Intel's 32-bit x86 desktop and mobile CPUs based on the sixth-generation P6 microarchitecture introduced on February 28, 1999.[citation needed] The brand's initial processors were very similar to the earlier Pentium II-branded processors. The most notable differences were the addition of the Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) instruction set (to accelerate floating point and parallel calculations), and the introduction of a controversial serial number embedded in the chip during manufacturing. The Pentium III is also a single-core processor.
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Launched | February 28, 1999 |
Discontinued | April 23, 2004 (for desktop units) May 18, 2007 (for mobile units)[1] |
Marketed by | Intel |
Designed by | Intel |
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Performance | |
Max. CPU clock rate | 400 MHz to 1.4 GHz |
FSB speeds | 100 MT/s to 133 MT/s |
Cache | |
L1 cache | 32 KB (16 KB data + 16 KB instructions) |
L2 cache | 128 KB - 512 KB |
Architecture and classification | |
Technology node | 250 nm to 130 nm |
Microarchitecture | P6 |
Instruction set | IA-32, MMX, SSE |
Instructions | MMX, SSE |
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Predecessor(s) | Pentium II |
Successor(s) | Pentium 4 |
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Unsupported |
Even after the release of the Pentium 4 in late 2000, the Pentium III continued to be produced with new models introduced up until early 2003. They were then discontinued in April 2004 for desktop units[3] and May 2007 for mobile units.[1]