Brand of discontinued microprocessors produced by Intel
For the first series, also known as i586, see Pentium (original).
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Pentium
First Pentium logo (1993)
General information
Launched
March 22, 1993; 31 years ago (1993-03-22)
Discontinued
2023; 1 year ago (2023)[1]
Marketed by
Intel
Designed by
Intel
Common manufacturer
Intel
Performance
Max. CPU clock rate
60 MHz to 4.4 GHz
FSB speeds
50 MHz to 800 MT/s
DMI speeds
2 GT/s to 16 GT/s
Architecture and classification
Technology node
800 nm to Intel 7
Microarchitecture
P5
P6
NetBurst
Core
Nehalem
Westmere
Sandy Bridge
Ivy Bridge
Haswell
Broadwell
Skylake
Willow Cove
Golden Cove
Instruction set
IA-32, x86-64
Instructions
x86
Physical specifications
Cores
1-5
Sockets
Desktop
Socket 4
Socket 5
Socket 7
Socket 8
Slot 1
Socket 370
Socket 423
Socket 478
LGA 775
LGA 1155
LGA 1150
LGA 1151
LGA 1200
LGA 1700
Mobile
Socket 495
Socket 479
Socket M
Socket P
Socket G1
Socket G2
Products, models, variants
Brand names
Pentium/Pentium MMX
Pentium Pro
Pentium II/Pentium II MMX
Pentium III
Pentium 4/Pentium 4 Extreme Edition
Pentium D/Pentium Extreme Edition
Pentium M
Pentium Silver
Pentium Gold
Variant
Atom, Celeron
History
Predecessor
i486
Successors
Core, Intel Processor
Pentium logos
1993–2003
2003–2006
2006–2009
2009–2013
2013-2015
2015–2020
2020–2023
Pentium is a discontinued series of x86 architecture-compatible microprocessors produced by Intel. The original Pentium was first released on March 22, 1993. The name "Pentium" is originally derived from the Greek word pente (πεντε), meaning "five", a reference to the prior numeric naming convention of Intel's 80x86 processors (8086–80486), with the Latin ending -ium since the processor would otherwise have been named 80586 using that convention.
Pentium was Intel's flagship processor line for over a decade until the introduction of the Intel Core line in 2006. Pentium-branded processors released from 2009 to 2023 were considered entry-level products that Intel rated as "two stars",[2][3] meaning that they were above the low-end Atom and Celeron series, but below the faster Intel Core lineup and workstation/server Xeon series. These later Pentium processors have little more than their name in common with earlier Pentiums.
The later Pentiums were based on both the architecture used in Atom and that of Core processors. In the case of Atom architectures, Pentiums were the highest performance implementations of the architecture. Pentium processors with Core architectures prior to 2017 were distinguished from the faster, higher-end i-series processors by lower clock rates and disabling some features, such as hyper-threading, virtualization and sometimes L3 cache.
In 2017, the Pentium brand was split up into two separate lines using the Pentium name:
Pentium Silver, aiming for low-power devices using the Atom & Celeron architectures.
Pentium Gold, aiming for entry-level desktop and using existing architectures such as Kaby Lake or Coffee Lake.
In September 2022, Intel announced that the Pentium and Celeron brands were to be replaced with the new "Intel Processor" branding for low-end processors in laptops from 2023 onwards.[1] This also applied to desktops using Pentium processors, and they were discontinued around the same time laptops stopped using Pentium processors in favor of "Intel Processor" processors in 2023.
^ abWarren, Tom (September 16, 2022). "Intel Processor will replace Pentium and Celeron in 2023 laptops". The Verge. Retrieved December 22, 2022.
^"Processor Names and Numbers". Intel. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
^"Intel Processors". Intel. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
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