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Pentium II Last modified: Tuesday, November 21, 2000

The Pentium II builds on the design of the Pentium Pro, but adds an additional 2 million transistors to bring the total up to 7.5 million. Current versions of the chip run at speeds of 233, 266, 300, and 333 MHz. In addition, the Pentium II features the following: A Singled Edge Contact (SEC) cartridge that fits into Slot 1 Dual Independent Bus (DIB) architecture 512K L2 cache 32K L1 cache MMX support

Boxed Pentium II Integration Notes Describes technical issues related to designing a motherboard for the Pentium II microprocessor. Pentium II and Celeron Performance Intel article (April 1998) describing the performance and architecture of the Pentium II and Celeron processors. The article also includes information on the products' features, cost, and availability. Pentium II overview Contains a short description of the Pentium II including features and physical description. Possible floating point bug in Pentium II Explains the details of the possible bug in the floating point unit of the new Pentium II processor. Describes how it was discovered and what it affects and contains downloadable source code. Sixth Generation (Pentium Pro / Pentium II Class) Chipsets Describes several of Intel's sixth generation (Pentium Pro/Pentium II class) chipsets. This page is from "The PC Guide". Yahoo!'s Pentium II page Yahoo!'s directory of Pentium II. Intel's Pentium II home page Contains product highlights, features, performance information, available systems, platform specific information, a software showcase, and developer site. Microprocessor Comparison Chart A cut-to-the-chase guide that compares and contrasts popular processing chips.