If you remember PCs with two CPUs, there's a pretty good reason why we don't have them anymore.

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 ...

In the summer of 2000, Dr. Thomas Pabst of Tom's Hardware Guide reported serious instability with Intel's new 1.13 GHz Pentium III chip that was so severe he couldn't sufficiently test the product.

The successor to the Pentium Pro from Intel. Pentium II refers to the CPU chip or the PC that uses it. Code-named Klamath, the Pentium II was a Pentium Pro with MMX multimedia instructions.

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 ...