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Processors were also created for the server market, but you are not required
to know of them for this exam. The Itanium chip is one of the most notable:
it came out in 2001 and was geared toward high-end servers.
TABLE 1.3 The Intel Family of Processors
Chip Year Added
Data Bus
Width (in Bits)
Address Bus
Width (in Bits)
Speed (in MHz)
8080 1974 8 8 2
8086 1978 16 20 5–10
8088 1979 8 20 4.77
80286 1982 16 24 8–12
386DX 1985 32 32 16–33
386SX 1988 32 24 16–20
486DX 1989 32 32 25–50
486SX 1991 32 32 16–33
487SX 1991 32 32 16–33
486DX2 1991 32 32 33–66
486DX4 1992 32 32 75–100
Pentium 1993 32 32 60–166
Pentium Pro 1995 64 32 150–200
Pentium II 1997 64 64 233–300
Pentium II Xeon 1998 64 64 400–600
Celeron 1999 64 64 400–600
Pentium III 1999 64 64 350–1000
Pentium III Xeon 1999 64 64 350–1000
Pentium 4 2002 64 64 1000–3000
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