The Pentium Chronicles

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-471-73617-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 402 g

The Pentium Chronicles describes the architecture and key decisions that shaped the P6, Intel's most successful chip to date. As author Robert Colwell recognizes, success is about learning from others, and Chronicles is filled with stories of ordinary, exceptional people as well as frank assessments of "oops" moments, leaving you with a better understanding of what it takes to create and grow a winning product.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Colwell, Robert P.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Rechnerarchitektur
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Personal Computer
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Mikroprozessoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword xi
Preface xv

1 INTRODUCTION 1

2 THE CONCEPT PHASE 11

3 THE REFINEMENT PHASE 43

4 THE REALIZATION PHASE 79

5 THE PRODUCTION PHASE 115

6 THE PEOPLE FACTOR 137

7 INQUIRING MINDS LIKE YOURS 155

Bibliography 171

Appendix 173
Out-of-Order, Superscalar Microarchitecture: A Primer 173
Plausibility Checking 175

Glossary 179
Index 185

Über Autor(innen)

Robert P. Colwell, PHD, is an independent consultant. He earned his PhD in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1985. Named an Intel Fellow (twenty-seven led Intel's Pentium 4 CPU core development. His other contributions at Intel include coleading the team that conceived Intel's P6 microarchitecture, the core of the company's Pentium II, Pentium III, Celeron, Xeon, and Centrino product families. He is the author and contributor to many published papers and chapters and is the inventor or co-inventor on more than forty patents.