Intel Processors
... core design. The Intel486 featured a newer form of technology called the Intel SL Technology, which allowed system designers to build intelligent power management capabilities into hardware. This made these capabilities independent of application software. Power management is improved because SL Technology protects the power management features from conflicting with other software. The 486 has a data bus that operates in burst mode, which can give up to 105Mbps transfers for cache-line fills and instructions. There are a few different kinds of Intel486 processors. There is the Ultra Low Power Intel486 SX processor which gives high levels of performance to low-cost, entry-level, embedded applications, where maximum energy efficiency is a high concern. These things were one of the smallest processors in the world; they were the same size as a quarter. The IntelDX2 and IntelDX4 processors were the highest level of quality in the 486 family. It had features like a memory management unit, speed-multiplying technology, on-chip integration, clock-multiplier, and floating-point unit. The Pentium Processor was built in 1993 and had a superscalar architecture in SPGA packaging. It had its own code and data caches, data integrity, enhanced 64-bit data bus, branch prediction, high-performance floating point unit, performance monitoring, and it was upgradeable. Advances in semiconductor technology ga...