Chapter 30. Pentium® III Hardware Overview
The Previous Chapter
This chapter described the first Xeon processor. It was based on the Pentium® II processor. This included:
The Cartridge.
FSB Protocol Alteration (GTL+ to AGTL+).
FSB Arbitration.
SMBus (System Management Bus). This is an introduction to the SMBus. A detailed description of the SMBus is outside the scope of this book.
PSE-36 Mode. This discussion is directly applicable to all subsequent IA32 processors.
This Chapter
This chapter provides a description of the Pentium® III processor's hardware design characteristics. This includes:
One product = three product lines.
Pentium® II/Pentium® III differences.
The Pentium® III/Xeon/Celeron roadmap.
The L1 Caches.
The L2 Cache.
The Data Prefetcher. ...
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