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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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[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] | |||
Revision as of 16:27, 3 September 2013
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