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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Pentium comes up on Lenny's Podcast, All-In, the a16z Podcast, the Knowledge Project, TBPN
Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vibe Coding
- ▶ 0:28 Jason Calacanis We bought our computers based on, you know, hey, the Pentium and that sound.
The Magic of Thinking Big | XPO CEO Mario Harik
- ▶ 1:31:24 Mario Harik At the time it was running on a Pentium CPU that was, uh, from a capacity perspective was capable of at the peak
Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:21 unnamed speaker We all gave them two on a buck for our Pentium.
Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
- ▶ 11:34 Jordi Hays It's Pentium line and Intel inside marketing campaign with dancers and multicolored clean room suits made the company a household name.
Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint
- ▶ 27:10 Lenny Rachitsky I just had this naming expert on the podcast who names, names some of the biggest companies in the world, Pentium, PowerBook, Sonos for sale.
Naming expert shares process for creating billion-dollar brands: Vercel, Azure, Windsurf, Sonos
- ▶ 1:07 Lenny Rachitsky David is the founder of Lexicon Branding, which pioneered the field of brand naming, and invented a few names that you may have heard of, including PowerBook, Pentium, BlackBerry, Swiffer, the Impossible Burger, also Vercel, and Windsurf,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:03 David Placek Honestly, was Andy Grove over the Pentium name because, and I learned a lot from him. 5 times in the scene
The AI Cold War, Signalgate, CoreWeave IPO, Tariff Endgames, El Salvador Deportations
- ▶ 9:18 Jason Calacanis Pentium inside. 2 times in the scene
What's Happening at SONOS (Total Disaster)
- ▶ 13:10 John Coogan Uh, I didn't notice, but they, they use this, like, super famous branding firm to come up with a name, Lexicon Branding, uh, and Lexicon had come up with the name Pentium Swiffer. 2 times in the scene
Torsten Reil, Helsing Founder: Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | E1237 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:21 Torsten Reil This was the time, I think, of the Pentium processor or something.
Building the Silicon Brain - Drew Houston of Dropbox
- ▶ 52:26 Drew Houston Two eighty-sixes at a five X markup when like the three 86 and four 86 and Pentium and everything are like clearly coming there around the corner.
Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- ▶ 48:31 Mike Maples, Jr. And right around that time, the Pentium processor came out.
E174: Inflation stays hot, AI disclosure bill, Drone warfare, defense startups & more
- ▶ 6:50 Chamath Palihapitiya None of us knew any better, and so every time we saw a new chip, we would go through the Pentium upgrade cycle because we thought that's what we were supposed to do.
E131: 2024 Fantasy President picks, debt ceiling agreement, Dollar dominance & more
- ▶ 1:19:39 Jason Calacanis Listen, we're talking about Pentium chips. 2 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Stolen Focus: Johann Hari
Nvidia: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) · Acquired
- ▶ 9:57 David Rosenthal You know, there was the two 86 and then the three 86 and the Pentium
- ▶ 10:00 David Rosenthal and it got it to Pentium, I don't know, five, whatever.
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 2:07 Benedict Evans So, I mean, just picking up on what Stephen said, there's a, um, observation that the CPU in the new iPad pros is, has roughly a thousand times more transistors than a Pentium from back in 1995.
a16z Podcast | Virtual Reality v Augmented Reality, and What's Next
- ▶ 21:53 Chris Dixon It'd be like, it'd be like back in the PC era in the nineties saying everyone has to have a top tier Pentium, like it's not realistic, right?
#48 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 2)
- ▶ 15:35 Adam Robinson So when I wanted to run a neural net, remember, remember Pentium chips? 2 times in the scene
When Biology Moves to Engineering
- ▶ 16:01 Vijay Pande The ability to engineer with circuit design like this is kind of like going from the 4004 microprocessor, which was done by hand, so a road map where we can get to something like a Pentium or a Z-Ten.
Decrypting Crypto: From Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs
- ▶ 7:03 Alex Rampell The first was something called hashcash, um, and hashcash came out in, um, 1997, and the idea was to prevent spam by having the sender of a message do lots of computational work that takes about 25 seconds, so you want to have a hash where…
The End of Cloud Computing
- ▶ 22:15 Peter Levine The original Pentium processor, right, in one of those big sheet metal cabinets in 1993, had 3.1 million with an M transistors.