The successor to the Pentium Pro from Intel. Pentium II refers to the CPU chip or the PC that uses it. Code-named Klamath, the Pentium II was a Pentium Pro with MMX multimedia instructions.

Ken Shirriff] has been sharing a really low-level look at Intel’s Pentium (1993) processor. The Pentium’s architecture was highly innovative in many ways, and one of [Ken]’s ...

The launch of Intel?s Pentium II last week was overshadowed by the discovery of a design bug in the processor chip. The bug was discovered by users after they experienced problems and delays.