22/03/1993
The Intel Pentium microprocessor was introduced. Dubbed P5, it was Intel's fifth-generation and first superscalar IA-32 microarchitecture that included dual integer pipelines, a faster floating-point unit, wider data bus, separate code and data caches and features for further reduced address calculation latency.
Pentium was Intel's primary microprocessor for personal computers during the mid-1990s. The original design was reimplemented in newer processes and new features were added to maintain its competitiveness as well as to address specific markets such as portable computers.