An excerpt from The Pentium Chronicles: The People, Passion, and Politics Behind the Landmark Chips (Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press, 2006) offers a project manager's firsthand account of the technical and management challenges facing the team that conceived Intel's P6 microarchitecture--the most successful general-purpose processor ever created.
Index Terms:
Project management, Professional conduct, Microprocessors, P6 microarchitecture
Citation:
Robert P. Colwell, "The Pentium Chronicles: Introduction," Computer, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 49-54, Jan. 2006, doi:10.1109/MC.2006.36