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The Intel Pentium processor is the next generation high-performance processor, fully compatible with its predecessor, the i486. The Pentium processor integrates 3.1 million transistors on 0.8 /spl mu/m BiCMOS process technology and has 2-5 times higher performance than the i486 CPU at the same frequency. Techniques used to achieve this level of performance are described.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>