German Brochure for Intel Pentium CPU from 04/1994

The Pentium processor was introduced on March 22, 1993. The first versions had heat problem and were sold with clocks of 60 MHz and 66 MHz. The 486 CPUs that were already manufactured at 0.6 micron reached 100 MHz and reached a integer performance close to the Pentium 60. When the Pentium were pushed on the 0.6 micron process on Socket 5 higher frequencies got available starting at 75 MHz and 90 MHz, Intel made increased efforts advertising their new product.

Cover page



Marketing CPU performance curve focusing on the iCOMP index with no scales on the axes. It shows already the P6 that was introduced in November 1995 as Pentium Pro (more than 1.5 years later). Also interesting is that they write on the left page that the performance trend will continue with two new CPU architectures that are currently in development at Intel. The P7 architecture was much later released in 2001 as IA-64 with the Itanium.



Main new features: Cache, 64 bit, branch prediction, two Integer pipelines, new FPU:



Compatibility, suitable for Multimedia (Win 3.x File Manager/Paint is shown as Win95 was not released yet), Pentium as good investment and market availability:



Pentium, available now!


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