The early 1990s were an interesting time in the PC world, mainly because PCs were ... The splashy launch of their new Pentium chip in 1993 was a huge event. Unfortunately an esoteric bug in ...

By comparison, the 90nm Prescott-based Pentium 4 521 was set at the same frequency and had an 84w TDP while the upcoming 65nm Core 2 Duo had a maximum TDP of 65w when clocked at 3GHz.

with each bit set as either a transistor (‘1’) or no transistor (‘0’), making read-out very easy. The example looks at the constant of pi, which the Pentium’s FPU has stored as a version ...