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 ...

Although chips including Intel's Pentium 4 series could be overclocked beyond 4GHz before the arrival of AMD's Bulldozer series, it was an AMD's FX chip that marked the debut of the first factory ...

By comparison, the 90nm Prescott-based Pentium 4 521 was set at the same frequency and had an 84w TDP while the upcoming 65nm Core 2 Duo had a maximum TDP of 65w when clocked at 3GHz.

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 ...

In 1993, Intel was making some headway in that regard. The splashy launch of their new Pentium chip in 1993 was a huge event. Unfortunately an esoteric bug in the floating-point division module ...

It offered a slow base clock of 133 MHz, but even that's over 33% faster than the Pentium 4 2.2 (Northwood). The CPU featured ...