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Placek: Andy Grove chose Pentium over ProChip due to team polarization
“When we went to, you know, an executive committee to present Pentium, and by the way, internally, one of the names that makes sense here, Descriptive Bunch of Engineers Prochip. Hey, it's professional, it's premium and it's chipped, so it should be pro-chip, r…”
Evans: iPad Pro CPU has 1,000x transistors of a 1995 Pentium
“So, I mean, just picking up on what Stephen said, there's a observation that the CPU in the new iPad pros is, has roughly a thousand times more transistors than a Pentium from back in 1995.”
Levine: iPhone 7 chip contains 3.3 billion transistors
“The current iPhone seven Has 3.3 billion, with a B, transistors. The original Pentium processor, right, in one of those big sheet metal cabinets in 1993, had 3.1 million with an M transistors.”
Evans: iPhone 6 CPU has 600x the transistors of a 1995 Pentium
“Because a CPU in a new iPhone, an iPhone six, has over 600 times more transistors than a Pentium from back in 1995, when Intel went consumer in a big way.”