Question

The Pentium III consists of

(a) dual independent bus architecture

(b) 512 Kbyte cache

(c) eight 64-wide Intel MMX registers

(d) all of the mentioned

The question was posed to me in a national level competition.

The doubt is from MMX Data Types, Wrap-around and Saturation Arithmetic, Multimedia Application Programming, Pentium III (P-III) CPU in chapter Recent Advancements in Microprocessor Architecture of Microprocessor

Answer 1

The correct option is (d) all of the mentioned

To explain I would say: The Pentium III has dual independent bus architecture that increases the bandwidth. It has a 512 Kbyte unified, non-blocking level2 cache and eight 64-wide Intel MMX registers.