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 ...

In 1993, Intel was making some headway in that regard. The splashy launch of their new Pentium chip in 1993 was a huge event. Unfortunately an esoteric bug in the floating-point division module ...

The new desktop microprocessor, called the Pentium 4, is scheduled to debut in the fourth quarter with a speed of 1.4 GHz. It will contain 42 million transistors, versus the 28 million in the ...

First released in 2000, the Pentium 4 family of Intel central processing unit chips sold until the summer of 2006. These chips run at clock speeds ranging from 1 GHz all of the way up to 3.8 GHz ...

NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Intel Corp. on Monday introduced its latest personal computer microprocessor, called the Pentium 4. Intel and AMD have been locked in a fierce battle for bragging rights as the ...

Back in the olden days, before Abraham Lincoln put an end to the megahertz myth -- or was it Theodore Roosevelt, we always get so confused -- the Pentium 4 ruled the land, with its deep ...

Intel Corp. will rebrand its Pentium and Celeron lines of entry-level laptop processors next year, the company announced today. The two processor lines will be offered under a new brand ...

But all good things must come to an end, and with the forthcoming release of the Linux 6.15 kernel, the 486 and the first Pentium processors will be sunsetted. Why? Linus Torvalds wrote recently ...

But it was still sometimes about the Pentiums—Pentium and Celeron have both soldiered on into the modern era as brand names for low-end desktop and laptop CPUs. But the labels may not be long ...