March 22, 1993: First Pentium Processor Shipped

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Intel Pentium Processor
March 22, 1993: Intel Pentium Processor ships

1993 – The first Pentium processors get shipped out. The 80586, invented y Vinod Dahm, ran at 60 and 66 MHz clock speeds. 3.1 million transistors and 4 GB of addressable memory. It was fabricated in a 0.8 µm BiCMOS process. It was replaced by the P54C.

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