The early 1990s were an interesting time in the PC world, mainly because PCs were entering the zeitgeist for the first time.

Up until recently, there were separate brands for Celeron and Pentium processors. Intel has now bundled both of them up into ... It doesn’t change our advice, though. These chips are good for light ...

Case in point an original (P54C) Intel Pentium, which [Ken Shirriff] took an in-depth look at. Using a by now almost unimaginably large 600 nm process, the individual elements of these standard ...

Ken Shirriff, noted reverse engineer and processor historian, has identified the specific transistors, incorrectly laid, ...

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 ...

The sixth generation of the Intel x86 family of CPU chips. The term may refer to the chip or to a PC that uses it. Introduced in 1995 as the successor to the Pentium, models from 150 MHz to 200 ...

Next: Pentium FDIV Versus Cougar Point Intel's handling of the Sandy Bridge ... the resumption of Sandy Bridge shipmentsa week later is a good sign. Brown, for one, believes the Sandy Bridge ...