Processor Cores
Similarly to the Pentium II it superseded, the Pentium III was also accompanied by the Celeron brand for lower-end versions, and the Xeon for high-end (server and workstation) derivatives. The Pentium III was eventually superseded by the Pentium 4, but its Tualatin core also served as the basis for the Pentium M CPUs, which used many ideas from the P6 microarchitecture. Subsequently, it was the Pentium M microarchitecture of Pentium M branded CPUs, and not the NetBurst found in Pentium 4 processors, that formed the basis for Intel's energy-efficient Core microarchitecture of CPUs branded Core 2, Pentium Dual-Core, Celeron (Core), and Xeon.
Intel Pentium III processor family | ||||
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Code-named | Core | Date released | ||
Katmai Coppermine Coppermine T Tualatin |
(250 nm) (180 nm) (180 nm) (130 nm) |
May 1999 Mar 2000 Aug 2000 Apr 2001 |
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