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 ...

Intel’s first Pentium processor, launched 33 years ago, represented a major milestone in CPU design, setting the stage for decades of x86 performance evolution. Built on an 800 nm process and ...

Whereas the CPUs and similar ASICs of the 1970s had their transistors laid out manually, with the move from LSI to VLSI, it became necessary to optimize the process of laying out the transistors and ...

Intel just announced plans to retire Pentium and Celeron - two iconic CPU brands that first arrived back in the '90s. While both longstanding labels will depart in Q1 2023, the tech giant says it'll ...

Intel’s processor lineup used to be, in the words of one of our greatest working artists, all about the Pentiums. That became less true beginning in the mid-2000s, when the modern “Core” branding was ...

Intel has used the Celeron and Pentium brands for CPUs since the 1990s, but they're finally fading away — if not quite in the way you'd expect. The company is replacing both brand names for low-end ...

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, Intel ...

Banias, a low-power chip for notebooks and Net devices, will be based on the older Pentium processor design that's being phased out in other Intel product lines. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at ...

If you're old enough then you'll remember the GHz race of the day between Intel and AMD, the race towards 1000MHz (1GHz) was a huge deal... and then we went to dual-core CPUs, and the Pentium brand ...

NTDev, a Windows enthusiast, decided to test what would happen if you try to run Windows XP on a CPU 233 times slower than the minimum spec. Behold, Windows XP on a 1MHz Pentium processor. It is ...