The economist article claimed the Pentium to be an innovation devloped in Isreal. I balked at the concept because it seemed to be just one of many iterations of the intel chip that has driven pc s since the very early 80s.
That same wikipedia article supports my understanding.
"Its fifth-generation x86 microarchitecture (sometimes called P5) was a direct extension of the 80486 architecture with dual integer pipelines, a faster FPU unit, wider data bus, and features for further reduced address calculation latency. In 1996, the Pentium MMX was introduced with the same basic microarchitecture complemented with MMX instructions, larger caches, and some other enhancements."
Innovation seems to be a poor choice of words.
Partially designed would have been much more accurate.