pentium 4 (thing)

On August 22, 2000, at a developer conference in San Jose, Intel ran a technology demonstration of its Pentium 4 processor. It runs at 1.4 GHz initially and is touted as being designed from the ground up for "computing on the Internet", plus other improvements to benefit speech recognition, 3-D graphics, imaging, and multitasking. The major improvements are being rolled together under the moniker "NetBurst"^TM, and include:

• multimedia applications, especially streaming audio and video
• a 400 MHz systems bus, triple the speed of that used in the Pentium III, to speed communications between the processor and other parts of the PC
• a "Rapid Execution Engine" to allow the ALUs at the core of the processor to run at twice the frequency of the rest of the processor
• an advanced Level 1 "Execution Trace Cache" and a 256 KB Level 2 memory cache on the processor