What does the pentium chip do?
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The mix of acronyms, technical terms, and brand names can make computer terminology a confusing tangle for the uninitiated.
Pentium
Pentium is a brand name for a line of CPUs from the computer manufacturer Intel.
CPU
The CPU, or Central Processing Unit, is the part of the computer that performs mathematical computations. It can be thought of, metaphorically, as the computer's brain.
x86
CPUs produced by Intel, including the Pentium line, use the x86 architecture. An architecture can be thought of as similar to a CPU's native language.
Features
Most Pentium processors include support for MMX, or Multimedia Extensions, that allow the processor to handle some common multimedia tasks.
Successor
The Pentium line has largely been replaced by the Core and Core 2 lines.
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