Ken Shirriff, noted reverse engineer and processor historian, has identified the specific transistors, incorrectly laid, ...
Intel faced its first major recall due to the FDIV bug in the original Pentium processor, resulting in a financial loss of approximately $475 million USD.
All in all, this glimpse at the internals of a Pentium processor provides a fascinating snapshot of high-end Intel semiconductor prowess in the early 1990s.
Intel's first dual core 64-bit (Intel 64) Pentium CPU with Hyper-Threading. The first model, the Extreme Edition 840, was introduced in 2005 with a clock rate of 3.2 GHz. It is the same as the ...
To build the next generation of high-performance applications, we need to start from a point of hardware acceleration from the outset.
Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, it wasn't super uncommon to hear about computers that had two CPUs. You could get a PC ...
The most recent Atom used in laptops is from 2016 and it was hardly fast back then. Up until recently, there were separate brands for Celeron and Pentium processors. Intel has now bundled both of them ...
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 ...
He invented the first Pentium Processor that made Intel the world’s biggest chip-maker. He then invented the AMD K6, popularly known as the ‘Pentium Killer’. He has the most cracking ...