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  • General Overview

    Founded in 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, Intel has grown over the years into a huge corporation whose technology not only is at the cutting edge, but also sets the standard for the desktop microprocessor industry.

  • The Intel 486

    The 1.2 million transistor 486 is the first Intel processor to incorporate a Level 1 cache (8Kb). Avaliable in 2 variants and speeds of up to 50MHz, the DX model has a built in math coprocessor while the SX doesn't.

  • The Intel 486DX2

    This is a clock doubled 486DX meaning that it runs at twice the speed of the motherboard bus speed. Clock doubling was a clever trick that allowed the speed of processors to keep increasing even though the motherboard speed had hit a maximum. A very popular model was the 486DX2/66 which had a 66MHz 486 processor running on a 33MHz motherboard.

  • The Intel 486DX4

    Although called a DX4, this is a clock trippled version of the 486DX. The number "4" is a little misleading. But DX3 doesn't sound that good does it?
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