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This feature allows the Pentium’s FPU to be about 2-3 times faster than the 486 with CORDIC, giving even home users access to significant FPU features a few years before the battle of MMX, 3DNow ...
The Celeron, Pentium, and various Core labels tell you most of what you need to know about a given CPU, but the model number suffix is important too. Here’s what these suffixes mean ...
Pentium Pro Family Developer's Manual, Volume 1, Intel; Simcha Gochman, et al, "The Intel Pentium M Processor: Microarchitecture and Performance," Intel Technology Journal, volume 7 issue 2.
The Pentium 4 is larger than the Pentium III, which means the newer chip has room for more transistors: 42 million, compared with 28 million for the Pentium III.
The Pentium chip was released in 1993 and served as Intel's flagship CPU for almost a decade before the Intel Core line of chips took its place. Since then, ...
The Pentium was made on an 800nm process, with the above die shot taken through stitched-together microscope photography. The die contains 3.1 million transistors, ...
The Pentium G4560 still uses Intel's latest architecture, which means low power requirements and modern motherboards. You could stick the G4560 in a $65 H110 motherboard, ...
The Pentium 4 would be built on several new technologies and principles, and leave existing CPUs looking like relics of yesteryear. At least, that was the idea. Intel NetBurst architecture.
I still have a Pentium 90 with the FDIV bug. Complete with its original VLB motherboard, which is possibly more rare than the CPU itself. Originally, I thought it might be funny to hang onto it ...
(This article originally appeared in the Mercury News on December 19, 1994.) THOMAS Nicely just couldn’t make the numbers work. On June 13, after running billions of calculations on his Pentium ...
The Pentium 4 can handily run Windows 7. The operating system's only CPU requirements are a clock speed of at least 1 GHz, support for 32- or 64-bit computing and the ability to support at least ...