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...This year we have more sophisticated software and hardware," says Edelman. "The Pentium is a great leap in hardware technology for our event...
...machines featured in this year's Harvard Cup were admittedly far less powerful than Deep Blues, but they performed better than ever, winning 25 percent of all possible points. The four software packages--"Kasparov's Gambit," "BattleChess 4000 SVGA," "Socrates Exp," and "M-Chess Professional"--all ran on 60MHz Pentium-based PCs on loan from Intel Corp...
Last month IBM rolled out a line of workstations based on the PowerPC 601 chip (another term for microprocessor). While the chip itself costs only half as much as a Pentium chip from Intel Corp., the cost of the IBM machines is driven up by power features and priced toward the workstation market. Rumor has it that both IBM and Apple will release PowerPC-based personal computers next year...
...Pentium is considered an engineering feat not only because of its complexity, but also because the more transistors are squeezed together, the harder it becomes to dissipate heat generated by these tiny electrical switches. Too much heat may cause the processor to fail...
...design the Pentium, Intel assembled a team of engineers with expertise in computer architecture (how the processor should work), system programming (how it could be used by programmers) and chip design (how the circuits should be laid out). The entire design and testing process took almost four years and cost tens of millions of dollars...