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The Pentium/Pentium (1995)pro was the first processor to have the l2 cache on the processor chip. Before this, the l2 cache was an option to add on to the motherboard.
The Pentium/Pentium (1995)pro was the first processor to have the l2 cache on the processor chip. Before this, the l2 cache was an option to add on to the motherboard. [1]




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References
References
[http://www.chips.5u.com/idxhst.html]
[http://www.chips.5u.com/idxhst.html Ref1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_microprocessors
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_microprocessors Intel Processors]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486 First on-board L1]

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Trends in cache size and organization

Theory: Cache Associativity decreased as cache size became larger because it became too expensive to have to search the cache each time once the cache was too large.


The Pentium/Pentium (1995)pro was the first processor to have the l2 cache on the processor chip. Before this, the l2 cache was an option to add on to the motherboard. [1]



References Ref1 Intel Processors First on-board L1