History of Intel

	Revision 25 . . (edit) December 19, 2001 10:33 pm by Valery Beaud [Fix a typo]
	Revision 24 . . (edit) December 16, 2001 9:58 pm by Vulture [DX4: 4 stands for 486, "numbers cannot be trademarked" :)]
	Revision 23 . . December 7, 2001 2:18 am by (logged).196.144.xxx
	Revision 22 . . December 7, 2001 2:16 am by (logged).196.144.xxx [Added Itanium, with no details]
	Revision 21 . . November 27, 2001 10:33 am by The ansible [briefly mention other products]
	Revision 20 . . (edit) November 5, 2001 10:49 pm by General Wesc [Changed "teh" to "the"]

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* 8008 - Indroduced April 1, 1972 - Clock speed 200KHz - 0.06 MIPS - Bus Width 8 bits - Number of Transistors 3,500 at 10 microns - Addressable memory 10 kilobytes - Typical in dumb terminals, general calculators, bottling machines - developed in tandem wiht 4004

* 8008 - Introduced April 1, 1972 - Clock speed 200KHz - 0.06 MIPS - Bus Width 8 bits - Number of Transistors 3,500 at 10 microns - Addressable memory 10 kilobytes - Typical in dumb terminals, general calculators, bottling machines - developed in tandem wiht 4004

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* 8086 - Introduced June 8, 1978 - Clock speeds 5MHz with 0.33 MIPS, 8MHz with 0.66MIPS, and 10MHz with 0.75 MIPS - Bus Width 16 bits - Number of Transistors 29,000 at 3 microns - Addressable memory 1 megabytes - 10X the performance of 8080 - Used in portable computing

* 8086 - Introduced June 8, 1978 - Clock speeds 5MHz with 0.33 MIPS, 8MHz with 0.66MIPS, and 10MHz with 0.75 MIPS - Bus Width 16 bits - Number of Transistors 29,000 at 3 microns - Addressable memory 1 megabytes - 10X the performance of 8080 - Used in portable computing

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* 80486DX4 - Introduced March 7, 1994 - Clock speeds 75MHz with 53 MIPS (41.3 SPECint92, 20.1 SPECfp92 on Micronics M4P 256K L2) and 100MHz with 70.7 MIPS (54.59 SPECint92, 26.91 SPECfp92 on Micronics M4P 256K L2) - Number fo Transistors 1.6 million at .6 micron - Bus Width 32 bits - Addressable memory 4 gigabytes - Virtual memory 64 terabytes - Pin count 168 PGA Package, 208 SQFP Package - Die size 345 Square mm - Used in high performance entry-level desktops and value notebooks

* DX4 - Introduced March 7, 1994 - Clock speeds 75MHz with 53 MIPS (41.3 SPECint92, 20.1 SPECfp92 on Micronics M4P 256K L2) and 100MHz with 70.7 MIPS (54.59 SPECint92, 26.91 SPECfp92 on Micronics M4P 256K L2) - Number fo Transistors 1.6 million at .6 micron - Bus Width 32 bits - Addressable memory 4 gigabytes - Virtual memory 64 terabytes - Pin count 168 PGA Package, 208 SQFP Package - Die size 345 Square mm - Used in high performance entry-level desktops and value notebooks

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* Wintel - refers to a computer running a Microsoft [Windows operating system]? on an Intel processor

* Wintel - refers to a computer running a Microsoft Windows operating system on an Intel processor