Microprocessors

1993 - Intel Pentium introduced in March. Clock speed 120 - 200 MHz.

1995 - Intel Pentium Pro introduced in November.

1997 - Intel Pentium MMX introduced in January. Clock speed 150 - 233 MHz.

1997 - AMD K6 MMX introduced in 2Q. Clock speed 233 - 300 MHz.

1997 - Intel Pentium II introduced in 2Q. Clock speed 233 - 300 MHz.

1997 - Intel Deschutes in 3Q. Clock speed 300 - 433 MHz.

1998 - Intel Katmai.

1999 - Intel Merced.

Common PC uses

bus-based architecture

CPU

Memory and

PCI bus controller

PCI I/O bus 32b / 64b at 33 MHz

Main memory

LAN

SCSI

Graphics

High-speed network

Hard drive

Display

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