Pentium

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UK/ˈpɛntɪəm/US/ˈpɛnti.əm/

noun

A CPU chip designed and manufactured by Intel, successor to the 486 chip, introduced in 1993.

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Meanings

nounPentium (plural Pentiums)

plural Pentiums

  1. A CPU chip designed and manufactured by Intel, successor to the 486 chip, introduced in 1993.
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    Given the usual Pentium-level processors now commonly available and the amount of memory these systems typically contain, the program we have developed can deal (optimally) with object set sizes in the lower teen’s, but even this requires the capability of Fortran90 to allocate very large arrays dynamically (and inform the user whether sufficient memory exists on the system to solve the problem of the size being requested).

    1997, Lawrence Hubert, Phipps Arabie, Jacqueline Meulman, “Hierarchical clustering and the construction of (optimal) ultrametrics using Lₚ-norms”, in Yadolah Dodge, editor, L₁-Statistical Procedures and Related Topics (Institute of Mathematical Statistics: Lecture Notes—Monograph Series; volume 31), Hayward, Calif.: Institute of Mathematical Statistics, →ISBN, section VII (Classification), page 464
  2. A computer having a Pentium processor.

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Chinese Mandarin 奔騰 /奔腾
  • 奔騰 /奔腾 (bēnténg)chip
French Pentium
  • Pentiumchip
German Pentium
  • Pentiumchip
Greek Pentium
  • Pentiumchip
Italian Pentium
  • Pentiumchip
Russian Пентиум
  • Пентиум (Pentium)chip

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