22 March 1993: Happy Birthday, Intel Pentium
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The Pentium is a fifth-generation x86 architecture microprocessor by Intel employee Vinod Dahm which first shipped on March 22, 1993.More here.
It is the successor to the 486 line. The Pentium was originally to be named 80586 or i586, but due to an ongoing battle with Advanced Micro Devices over the use of the previous processor generations' names--80386 and 80486--and the inability to trademark a number, Intel enlisted the help of Lexicon Branding in order to rename their new processor line.
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