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The Intel®
Celeron™ processors at 600, 566, 533, 500 and 466 MHz expand Intel
processing performance into the sub-$1000 market segment. The Intel
Celeron processor family delivers quality, reliability, and compatibility
while offering good performance for today's most widely-used applications.
Intel Celeron processors provide a great way to get on to the Internet for
less than $1,000. They include an integrated 128 Kbyte L2 cache, and are
available in versions that are built both on Intel's 0.25 micron CMOS
process technology as well as Intel's advanced 0.18 micron CMOS process
technology.
Discover how Intel Celeron processor features and benefits can enhance
your basic computing experience:
Product
Highlights
- Available at 600, 566, 533, 500 and 466 MHz.
- Dynamic Execution technology.
- Includes Intel MMX™ media enhancement technology.
- Intel Streaming SIMD Extensions (available on the Intel Celeron
Processor at 566 and 600 MHz).
- 32 Kbyte (16 Kbyte/16 Kbyte) Level 1 cache.
- 128 Kbyte integrated Level 2 cache.
- 66 MHz Intel P6 micro-architecture's multi-transaction system bus.
- Intel Chipset support:
Intel®
810 chipset, Intel®
810E chipset, Intel®
440BX, Intel®
440EX and the Intel®
440ZX-66 AGPset.
P6
Microarchitecture Dynamic Execution Technology
Multiple Branch Prediction: Predicts program execution through
several branches, accelerating the flow of work to the processor.
Dataflow Analysis: Creates an optimized, reordered schedule of
instructions by analyzing data dependencies between instructions.
Speculative Execution: Carries out instructions speculatively and
based on this optimized schedule, ensures that the processor’s
superscalar execution units remain busy, boosting overall performance.
Intel® MMX™
Media Enhancement Technology
Intel MMX technology includes new instructions and data types that
allow applications to achieve a new level of performance. Intel’s MMX
technology is designed as a set of basic, general-purpose integer
instructions that are easily applied to the needs of a wide diversity of
multimedia and communications applications. The highlights of the
technology are:
- Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD) technique
- 57 new instructions
- Eight 64-bit wide MMX technology registers
- Four new data types
Intel's
Streaming SIMD Extensions (available on the Intel® Celeron™ Processor
at 600 and 566 MHz):
The Internet Streaming SIMD Extensions consist of 70 new instructions
and includes single instruction, multiple data for floating-point,
additional SIMD-integer and Cacheability control instructions. Some of the
benefits to desktop and Internet applications of Internet Streaming SIMD
Extensions include:
- Higher resolution and quality images can be viewed and manipulated
than previously possible.
- High quality audio, MPEG2 video, and simultaneous MPEG2 encoding and
decoding.
- Reduced CPU utilization for speech recognition, as well as higher
accuracy and faster response times.
Other
Significant Features
- All the Intel Celeron processors are available in either the plastic
pin grid array (PPGA - 533, 500 and 466 MHz.) package or the Flip-Chip
Pin Grid Array (FC-PGA - 600 and 566 MHz) package . Both packages are
compatible with the 370 pin socket and provides more flexibility to
design low cost systems by enabling lower profile and smaller systems
and providing the potential for reducing costs of processor retention
and cooling solutions.
- The 66 MHz system bus supports multiple outstanding transactions to
increase bandwidth availability.
- Incorporates separate 16 Kbyte level-one caches(32Kbyte total), one
for instructions and one for data.
- Incorporates a 128 Kbyte unified, non-blocking, level-two cache that
improves performance by reducing the average memory access time and
providing fast access to recently used instructions and data.
- A pipelined Floating-Point Unit (FPU) for supporting the 32-bit and
64-bit formats specified in IEEE standard 754, as well as an 80-bit
format.
- Parity-protected address/request and response system bus signals
with a retry mechanism for high data integrity and reliability.
Testing
and Performance Monitoring Features
- Built-in Self Test (BIST), providing single stuck-at fault coverage
of the microcode and large logic arrays, as well as testing of the
instruction cache, data cache, Translation Lookaside Buffers (TLBs)
and ROMs.
- IEEE 1149.1 Standard Test Access Port and Boundary Scan mechanism,
enables testing of the Intel Celeron processor and system connections
through a standard interface.
- Internal performance counters for performance monitoring and event
counting.
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