The weaving is not just a Pentium but specifically the P54C revision of the original Pentium. The first Pentium chips were too hot and slow. Intel fixed this by a) moving from 800 nm to 600 nm, b) dropping the voltage from 5V to 3.3V, and c) adding a clock driver that could stop the clock to idle parts of the chip. Intel also added 200,000 transistors to support multiprocessing; circuitry that is visible in the rug. My photo shows the P5 on the left and the smaller P54C on the right. 3/6
Marilou Schultz, the artist, learned weaving as a child and is part of four generations of weavers. She used wool from the Navajo-Churro sheep along with traditional plant dyes. She worked from an Intel photo of the die (shown below) and used the "raised outline" weaving technique to make the borders of chip regions more visible. The lack of symmetry made the project challenging. 4/6