Comment by ack_complete

The timeline for fast multiplies is also a bit off, IMUL was already 4c latency / 1c throughput on the Pentium Pro (1995) and Pentium II (1997). Pretty sure IMUL was also only a few cycles on the AMD K6 (1997). Though Intel slowed it back down again in the Pentium 4, until they reverted back to the P6 architecture in the Pentium M.