Released in 1993, Intel’s Pentium processor was a marvel of technological progress. Its floating point unit (FPU) was a big improvement over its predecessors that still used the venerable CORDIC ...

Intel will release a 1.7GHz Pentium 4 processor and with it a scorched-earth approach to the PC market. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and ...

Most would agree that Windows 11 has some super-strict hardware requirements that Microsoft has enforced. The base requirements seem pretty reasonable, but it's the additional need for technologies ...

Whereas the CPUs and similar ASICs of the 1970s had their transistors laid out manually, with the move from LSI to VLSI, it became necessary to optimize the process of laying out the transistors and ...

If you actually remember that you bought a new Pentium 4 computer to celebrate the new millennium, great news! A settlement by Intel and HP will pay you $15. A class-action suit filed in California ...

Intel just announced plans to retire Pentium and Celeron - two iconic CPU brands that first arrived back in the '90s. While both longstanding labels will depart in Q1 2023, the tech giant says it'll ...

With Intel officially forging forward in the desktop consumer space with Pentium 4, with the Prescott-2M update the most recent, there's also been a lively undercurrent of information, benchmarks and ...

Intel's top Pentium chip, introduced in late 2000. The successor to the Pentium III, the Pentium 4 features the NetBurst micro-architecture (see NetBurst). All Pentium 4 chips are single core, while ...

One of Intel's first dual-core 64-bit Pentium CPUs. Introduced in 2005 along with the Pentium Processor Extreme Edition 840, they both share the Intel 64 64-bit technology, but the Pentium D does not ...

Intel’s processor lineup used to be, in the words of one of our greatest working artists, all about the Pentiums. That became less true beginning in the mid-2000s, when the modern “Core” branding was ...

Intel’s upcoming Atom tablet chip code-named Bay Trail will be repurposed for use in the company’s Celeron and Pentium chips for entry-level laptops, desktops and all-in-ones, Intel said on Friday.