On July 18, 1968, the new company of Bob North and Gordon Moore was opened at 365 Meadowview Street in the beautiful city of Mountain View on the shores of San Francisco Bay, California, USA. The number is open. Shortly after its establishment, it spent US$15,000 to buy the right to use the INTEL name from a company called INTELCO. From this, INTEL, the semiconductor giant, began his legendary history in the IT industry.

November 15, 1971, is regarded as a landmark day in the global IT industry and has been written into many computer textbooks. Hoff, an engineer from INTEL, invented the world's first microprocessor, the 4004. Although this 4-bit microprocessor only had 45 instructions, it could only execute 50,000 instructions per second. It’s not even as good as the world’s first computer, ENIAC, in 1946. But its integration level is much higher, and a piece of 4004 weighs less than a cup.

In the early 1980s, INTEL firmly grasped an olive branch extended to him by IBM, which was founded in 1896. 1981 was an important year in the history of INTEL's development. INTEL sales engineer Weston Wei found an important customer for INTEL's 8088 processor, the blue giant IBM, and began to use INTEL's 8088 processor in the subsequent personal computers manufactured by IBM. 8088 microprocessor as its core processor. INTEL has become famous since then. "Fortune" magazine also listed INTEL as one of the 17 companies that have achieved the greatest commercial success.

With the development of INTEL, its research and development strength has also been continuously enhanced. The early 80X86 series microprocessors can no longer meet people's requirements. When INTEL was busy developing the next generation of processors, it discovered that it was ultimately impossible to obtain a digitally registered trademark, so it decided to name its next-generation microprocessor with a nice-sounding name that was easier to register. The name was Pentium.

In 1993, the landmark INTEL Pentium processor was officially released, announcing that personal computers had entered the multimedia era.

In March 2003, INTEL released a complete computing solution - Centrino mobile computing technology for the first time in its history. This release can be seen as a precursor to INTEL's comprehensive entry into mobile portable computers.

The development of microprocessors has always followed Moore's Law and has never violated it. However, according to the law and the current research and development speed, experts have concluded that the current microprocessor production technology is about to face an insurmountable gap. . INTEL seems to have seen the difficulty in issuing processor licenses. Therefore, it once again opened its broad mind and extended its arms to the chip manufacturing field that it could touch as much as possible. Centrino mobile technology has also become a stepping stone for INTEL to open the door to the future.

Are INTEL and AMD enemies?

Some people say that INTEL and AMD have been feuding for a long time, but this is wrong. In 1969, eight people resigned from Fairchild, a well-known semiconductor manufacturing company at the time. Among them, North, Moore, and Grove founded INTEL, and one person founded AMD, Jerry Sanders. Both companies are headquartered in Silicon Valley. But in the 286 and 386 eras, AMD had no ability to independently design microprocessors. The CPUs it manufactured at that time were all provided with design drawings by INTEL. This situation continued until the emergence of K5. After AMD acquired NEXGEN, it launched the K6 processor in April 1997. Since then, its competitiveness has gradually expanded and it has launched more microprocessors that made INTEL feel competitive pressure. Today, the processor market has formed a situation where INTEL and AMD are competing for hegemony.

What is "Moore's Law"?

In 1965, Gordon Moore discovered a phenomenon of historic significance while preparing a speech. When he started making charts to represent memory chip performance growth data, he discovered an alarming growth trend, with chip capacity doubling every 18 to 24 months. Based on this reasoning, if this trend continues, computing power will show regular growth in a relatively short period of time.

Review of INTEL classic chips and motherboards:

1. Intel 430FX chipset

The Intel 430FX chipset was the first chipset produced by Intel. Intel became an instant hit in the chipset field with it. From then on, the saying that Intel CPUs and Intel chipset motherboards have excellent performance has been widely circulated. The Triton First chipset was the first Pentium-class chipset to provide support for EDO DRAM at the time. The solution it built to match high-speed EDO DRAM with the first-generation original Pentium processor was the pursuit of high-end performance for a long time. Ideal for performance users. The CACHE type of this chipset is pipeline burst, with a maximum capacity of 512KB and a cache capacity of 64MB. In terms of memory, it supports a maximum memory capacity of 128MB. The EDO DRAM reading time is 7-2-2-2. The FPM DRAM reading time is 7-3-3-3. The data bandwidth is 64BIT. This was very difficult at the time. imaginary.

2. Intel 430VX chipset

430VX chip

After Intel launched two of the most successful CPUs, it suddenly felt that there was something missing. The reason was the original The FX chip cannot meet the needs of Pentium MMX CPU, while the HX chipset has good performance, but its expensive price is not acceptable to ordinary users. Therefore, Intel urgently needs to launch a new chipset to supplement the vacuum zone between FX chipset and HX chipset. It was under this circumstance that the Intel 430VX chipset was born, and people are accustomed to calling it Triton Three. But people found that this Triton Three is not better than the Triton 2 in terms of performance, but its low price is talked about by people who are not well-off.

3. Intel 440LX chipset

With the rapid development of CPU manufacturing technology, a powerful Pentium II processor finally emerged. In order to promote this CPU, in May 1997, Intel specially customized a new set of clothes for it - the 440LX chipset. It supported AGP, SDRAM and Ultra/33 functions for the first time, and it supported two processors, making it the most powerful chipset at the time.

4. Intel 440BX chipset

440BX chip

The Intel 440BX chipset is the longest-lived chipset, and can also be said to be Intel's longest-lasting chipset. A successful chipset product, it is still talked about by many people today. This 440BX can produce excellent overclocking effects with Intel's Celeron CPU, and its price is not expensive, so it has been loved by DIY enthusiasts for as long as two years.

5. Intel 810 Chipset

Intel 810 Chipset

Following the successful launch of Intel BX, Intel has made a big bet on the next generation of chips. In terms of group products, this is the I810. I810 is not only Intel's first integrated chipset product, but also a new "firmware control center" architectural design attempted by Intel, which changes the previous north and south bridge designs. The uniqueness of this new design lies in the integration of various parts The performance is decomposed into independent chips, and the transmission method and speed of the inter-chip channel are redesigned, thereby improving performance. However, the market response of this product was not very good, which made Intel somewhat bleak.

6. Intel 820 Chipset

Intel 820 Chipset

With the help of RAMBUS and the many new designs of I820, Intel is dreaming of regaining All chipset territory was lost, but the facts gave Intel another heavy blow. Because the licensing fee for RAMBUS memory is quite high, and the production cost of RAMBUS memory remains high, it is simply unimaginable for ordinary users. The listing of I820 can be said to have taught Intel a lesson with money, because Intel suffered heavy losses from the I820.

7. Intel 815 Chipset

Intel 815 Chipset

Towards the end of the millennium, Intel came with good news, that is, a simple version The I815 chipset I815EP is fully launched. In addition to adding support for ATA100, it also removes the built-in expensive I752 display module. This time, the price/performance ratio has been greatly improved, and it is the I815EP motherboard that is making waves in the PIII market.

8. Intel 850 Chipset

Intel 850 Chipset

On November 21, 2000, Intel released a new generation of Pentium processor-Pentium IV , using Willamette core, Sock423 interface, supporting chipset products are I845 and I850. I845 supports PC-133 SD memory, while I850 uses Rambus memory. This is after the recycling time of the 820 chipset, Intel once again launched a chip that supports Rambus memory Group.

9. Intel 845D motherboard

Intel 845D motherboard

The release of I845D also means that the P4 chipset has officially entered the Socket 478 era and begun to provide support for DDR memory support.

10. Intel 845PE motherboard

Intel 845PE motherboard

A processor that supports 400/533MHZ front-side bus design and provides support for single-channel DDR333 memory. Supports hyper-threading technology. Provides support for the AGP4X bus specification.

11. Intel 845E motherboard

Intel 845E motherboard

Provides support for 400/533MHZ front-side bus design and SOCKET 478 interface processor. Supports single channel DDR333 memory.

12. Intel 845G motherboard

Intel 845G motherboard

Integrated EXTREME GRAPHICS display core. Provide support for 400/533MHZ front-side bus processor. Supports single channel DDR333 memory.

13. Intel 848P motherboard

Intel 848P motherboard

Supports 400/533/800MHZ front-side bus design processor and single-channel DDR400 memory. Support AGP 8X bus specification. Provide 2 SATA interfaces.

14. Intel 865PE motherboard

Intel 865PE motherboard

A processor that supports 400/533/800MHZ front-side bus design. Supports dual-channel DDR400 memory. Provides 2 SATA interfaces, paired with ICH5R south bridge chip, to implement multiple RAID modes.

15. Intel865G motherboard

Intel865G motherboard

Onboard EXTREME GRAPHICS 2 display core. Processor that supports 400/533/800MHZ front-side bus design. Supports dual-channel DDR400 memory. Provide 2 SATA interfaces.

16. Intel 875P motherboard

Intel 875P motherboard

The biggest difference from the 865PE chip motherboard is that it supports the PAT function and also provides support for ECC memory.

The Intel915X series chipset is not only the best partner for the LGA775 interface processor, but also introduces many new technologies into practical applications. The 915X completely abandoned the AGP bus and instead used the more advanced PCI-E bus, which can bring higher data transmission bandwidth to graphics chips, high-speed storage devices and network equipment. It is the most revolutionary computer system in recent years. Bus upgrade. Breakthrough support for DDR2 memory indicates the future development direction of chipsets.

Paired with the ICH6 series south bridge chip, it supports the HD-AUDIO audio specification. The ICH6R, which supports the RAID function, also provides a new MATRIX STORAGE function, taking into account cost, performance and security.

17. Intel915P motherboard

Intel915P motherboard

Provides 533/800MHZ front-side bus design and adopts LGA775 interface processor. Supports dual-channel DDR2/DDR memory. Provides 4 SATA interfaces. Provides support for the new PCI-E bus.

18. Intel915GL motherboard

Intel915GL motherboard

Integrate GMA900 graphics core and support DX9.0 special effects. Supports 533/800MHZ front-side bus design and uses LGA775 interface processor. In terms of memory, only DDR memory is supported. Provides 4 SATA interfaces.

19. Intel915PL motherboard

Intel915PL motherboard

Supports 533/800MHZ front-side bus design and uses LGA775 interface processor. In terms of memory, it only provides support for dual-channel DDR memory, and the memory plug and erase is also reduced to 2. Provides 4 SATA interfaces.

20. Intel915GV motherboard

Intel915GV motherboard

Integrate GMA900 graphics core and support DX9.0 special effects. Supports 533/800MHZ front-side bus design and uses LGA775 interface processor. In terms of memory, only dual-channel DDR memory is supported. No PCI-E X16 graphics card slot is provided. Provides 4 SATA interfaces.

21. Intel910GL motherboard

Intel910GL motherboard

Mainly targeted at OEM market products. Supports 533MHZ front-side bus design and uses LGA775 interface processor. Provides 4 SATA interfaces.

22. Intel915G motherboard

Intel915G motherboard

The onboard GMA900 graphics new core supports DX9.0 special effects and provides a PCI-E graphics card slot. Supports 533/800MHZ front-side bus design and uses LGA775 interface processor. Provides 4 SATA interfaces.

23. Intel925X motherboard

Intel925X motherboard

Supports 533/800/1066 front-side bus design and uses LGA775 interface processor. Support EM64T technology. Provides support for the DDR2 memory specification. Paired with ICH6R south bridge chip, it supports MATRIX STORAGE function.

The emergence of 945X/955X indicates that personal computers are beginning to move towards the dual-core era and support EM64T technology. In conjunction with the ICH7/R Southbridge chip, it provides support for SATA2 specifications. 945G integrates the GMA950 graphics core, which has a higher core frequency than the GMA900. The 3D MARK03 test score is close to that of a 5200 independent graphics card.

24. Intel945G motherboard

Intel945G motherboard

Integrate the efficient GMA950 graphics core and provide PCI-E graphics card slot. Supports dual-core processors. Supports DDR2 533/667 memory. Provides support for SATA2 transmission specification.

25. Intel945P motherboard

Intel945P motherboard

Supports 533/800/1066 front-side bus design and uses LGA775 interface processor. Support dual-core technology. Provides 4 SATA2 interfaces. Paired with ICH7R south bridge chip, it supports RAID function.

26. Intel955X motherboard

Intel955X motherboard

Supports 533/800/1066 front-side bus design and uses LGA775 interface processor. Provides support for dual-core processors.

Supports dual-channel DDR2 533/667 memory. Support ECC memory. Supports up to 8GB memory

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