Intel P6 (Pentium Pro)

Realizes: Delivers high server and workstation throughput by combining speculative multi-issue scheduling with the integrated L2 cache to keep pipelines fed.

The Intel P6 (Pentium Pro) CPU introduced a deeply pipelined out-of-order superscalar core with an on-die L2 cache to accelerate enterprise workloads; example: Pentium Pro 200 MHz powering mid-1990s servers.

Examples

Pentium Pro 200 MHz server

The Pentium Pro 200 MHz powered mid-1990s rack servers and workstations, demonstrating the new P6 out-of-order pipeline and on-die L2 cache.