The Pentium III is the third in the P6 family. It includes some enhancements over the PII. It has SSE which is additional intructions for working on multimedia code. SSE = Streaming SIMD Extentions SIMD = Single Instruction Multiple Data Several versions of the PIII were made: 80525 PIII Katmai - 0.25 Micron Cache offchip 80526 PIII Coppermine - 0.18 Micron 256K of cache integrated on the die PIII Mobile - Low voltage PIII with on die cache 80530 PIII Tualatin - 512k Cache on Die and voltages
The Coppermine was available in both the SECC2 package and a Sooket 370 FCPGA Tualatins were a modified Socket 370 called Socket T.
Pentium III CPUs spaned 1000MHz of speed (400 -1400). and were great performers. a P3 1400 will outperform a P4 2GHz. ----------------------------- Core: Katmai Cache: 512k FSB: 100 -------------------- This is an Engineering Sample