Chapter 35. Pentium® 4 Processor Overview

The Previous Chapter

This chapter introduced the Pentium® 4 processor's relationships with the various system subsystems.

This Chapter

This chapter provides an overview of the Pentium® 4 processor. This includes:

  • The Pentium® 4 Processor Family.

  • Pentium® III/Pentium® 4 Differences.

  • Pentium® 4/Pentium® 4 Prescott Differences.

  • Pentium® 4 Processor Basic Organization.

  • The FSB is Tuned for Multiprocessing.

  • Intro to the FSB Enhancements.

  • IA Instructions and μops.

  • The Trace Cache.

  • The μop Pipeline.

  • The Alias Registers.

  • Speculative Execution.

The Next Chapter

This chapter provides a detailed description of the automatic configuration of the Pentium® 4 processor when the system is first powered up. This includes:

  • Setup ...

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