The Pentium Chronicles

"As chief architect of the P6, Robert Colwell offers a unique perspective as he unfolds the saga of a project that ballooned from a few architects to hundreds of engineers, many just out of school. Far more than a treatise on project management, The Pentium Chronicles gives the rationale, the personal triumphs, and the humor that characterized the P6 project, on undertaking that broke all technical boundaries by being the first to try an out-of-order, speculative superscalar architecture in a microprocessor." "In down-to-earth language, organized around a framework "we wish we had known about…