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What are the differences between the Pentium Pentium Pro and Pentium II?

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The Pentium 4 is a seventh-generation x86 architecture microprocessor produced by Intel and is their first all-new CPU design, called the NetBurst architecture, since the Pentium Pro of 1995. Unlike the Pentium II, Pentium III, and various Celerons, the architecture owed little to the Pentium Pro/P6 design, and was new from the ground up. The microarchitecture of Netburst featured a very deep instruction pipeline, with the intention of scaling to very high frequencies. It also introduced the SSE2 instruction set for faster SIMD integer, and 64-bit floating-point computation. Later Pentium 4 models introduced new technological advances such as Hyper-Threading, a feature to make one physical CPU appear as two logical and virtual CPUs.

— Source: Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org)