1. Intel Pentium III vs. AMD Athlon
CS 854/551
Yan Zhang, Kevin Hirst, Adam Spanberger, Jag Gadiyaram

2. Table of Contents Introduction (Adam)
Instruction Set Architecture (Yan)
Instruction Stream (Kevin)
Data Stream (Adam)
Comparison with Athlon (Jag)

3. P6 Family of Processors
Pentium Pro was the first P6 processor in the IA-32 architecture developed in 1995 by Intel.
As the chip technology increased, Intel redesigned the original P6 architecture to be faster and include more instructions.
The Pentium II added the MMX instructions which Yan will discuss, and it introduced AutoHalt, Stop-Grant, Sleep, and Deep Sleep which allowed parts of the chip to shut down. The increase in chip technology allowed transistors to be closer together. This increased power density on the chips. With this increase, cooling the chip became increasingly difficult. These modes allowed for the chip to cool itself by shutting down certain sections of the chip
PIII introduced new SSE insstructions which Yan will discuss
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4. The Pentium® III Coppermine
28 million transistors
106 mm2 die area
IA-32 Architecture
Cppermine is an IA-32 architecture in the P6 family released in It has 28 million transistors on the 106 mm square die. It can run a clock speeds up to 1.13 GHz. So basically, it’s small, fast, and back compatible with older programs compiled for other IA-32 architectures.
And now here’s Yan to talk about the Instruction Set Architecture