[Ken Shirriff] has been sharing a really low-level look at Intel’s Pentium (1993) processor. The Pentium’s architecture was highly innovative in many ways, and one of [Ken]’s most recent discoveries ...

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 ...

Man, today is a sad day... Intel is retiring the Celeron and Pentium CPU brands, where it's calling it an adjustment to product names moving into 2023 and beyond. Intel will drop the Celeron and ...

This iconic CPU also boasted Intel’s first superscalar architecture, but wasn’t without its issues.

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 is set to launch new dual-core Pentium D processors and supporting chipsets designed for home and business desktop PCs. The chips, to be released Thursday, will be the second dual-core Pentium ...

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 ...

While there are more and more premium Chrome OS devices, the category very much excels at the cheaper end of the market. When buying those Chromebooks next year, you might notice that it will be ...

It's pretty much obvious that the Tualatin range of processors were practise for Intel's recent move to a 0.13 micron process for the Pentium 4. Built on the 0.13u process and home to either 256kb or ...

While it may seem strange to be reading about new Pentium processors in the year 2021, bear with me. Intel just announced its N-series Pentium Silver and Celeron processors at CES, and they may just ...