One Product Yields Three Product Lines
Soon after the advent of the Pentium® II product, Intel® divided the P6 into three product lines, two of which are just variations on the Pentium® II processor.
The Pentium® II processor targeted the mid- to high-end desktop market and supported either one or two processors on the FSB.
The Xeon processor. The Xeon targeted the workstation and server market and supported either two (in a Xeon DP product), or four (in a Xeon MP product) processors on the FSB. With the following exceptions, the Xeon was identical to the Pentium® II:
- While all models of the Pentium® II had a 512KB L2 Cache, the Pentium® II Xeon was available with a 512KB, 1MB, or 2MB L2 Cache.
- While the Pentium® II's BSB operated at 50% of ...
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