Intel's Original Plans For the Pentium 4
It seems that Intel had very ambitious plans for the Pentium 4, unlike what we see in today's P4 chips. In the original blueprints for the P4 chip were a third-level cache strapped to the die, 2 full-fledged floating-point units, a bigger execution trace cache and a L1 cache.
Unfortunately, Intel engineers had to redesign the chip and strip down most features when the chip size had gotten too big.
What other plans did Intel originally have for the Pentium 4?
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