More shock revelations from the Intel archives

ARCHAEOLOGISTS TRAWLING our extensive Intel email archive have discovered yet another fascinating fact from the last century.

Those of you old enough to remember a time when dinosaurs ruled the earth and processors were made using a 500 nanoyard process will recall that it was once impossible to build a CPU with Level 2 cache on the same piece of silicon.

This is why the Pentium II and the early Pentium III chips came in Slot One form - the CPU and the cache chips were stuck in a cartridge containing a circuit board and a heat spreader which in turn was riveted to an active thermal solution (or fan, as it is more commonly known).

What is less commonly-known, but is revealed in our archive, is that the Slot One cartridge cost more to make than the CPU itself, despite being screwed together in the back streets of Malaysia by orphans taking time off from their jobs making trainers. µ

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