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LCD PC E
LCD PC E
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8590 MAINTENANCE
8590 MAINTENANCE
1.2.1.1 Intel Desktop Pentium 4 Processor (Northwood) Microarchitecture Summary
The following features summarize the Intel Pentium 4 Processor microarchitecture:
Available at 2 GHz, 2.20 GHz, 2.26 GHz,2.40 GHz, and 2.53 GHz
Binary compatible with applications running on previous members of the Intel microprocessor line
Intel® Net Burst™ micro-architecture
System bus frequency at 400 MHz and 533 MHz
Rapid Execution Engine: Arithmetic Logic Units (ALUs) run at twice the processor core frequency
Hyper Pipelined Technology
Advance Dynamic Execution
----Very deep out-of-order execution
----Enhanced branch prediction
Level 1 Execution Trace Cache stores 12K micro-ops and removes decoder latency from main execution loops
8 KB Level 1 data cache
512 KB Advanced Transfer Cache (on- die, full speed Level 2 (L2) cache) with 8-way associativity and Error
Correcting Code (ECC)
144 Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2) instructions
Enhanced floating point and multimedia unit for enhanced video, audio, encryption, and 3D performance