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The Pentium family The Pentium is a 32-bit microprocessor just like the previous Intel 80386 and 80486 but has been considerably enhanced to improve its speed of operation. Even the 132 pins of the 80386 have increased to 296 on the Pentium. Other full RISC chips were being well-received at the time the CISC Pentium was launched in 1993 and Intel took these new designs into account but it was boxed into a corner by its own success. It had to maintain absolute compatibility with the previous 8086, 80286, 80386 and the 80486 together with their numerical co-processors. The compromise was to use all the RISC while maintaining the CISC codes. It has over 400 instruction codes. Some are performed by hardware and some by microcode. Its two million plus transistors have been incorporated into a superscalar structure. This means that it has duplicated arithmetic and logic units that can allow it to carry out two instructions at the same time under favourable conditions. It was launched at 66 MHz and in its first year became famous as the microprocessor that couldn’t count ...»