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 brains of the PC is a central processing unit (CPU ... 1986, Intel's 386 introduced an enhanced architecture that was carried forth in all subsequent chips, including the 486 and Pentium.

Of course, back then Intel was all about clockspeed. Its Netburst Pentium 4 chips were designed for raw frequency above all else and the assumption was that improved CPU performance hinged largely ...

All in all, this glimpse at the internals of a Pentium processor provides a fascinating snapshot of high-end Intel semiconductor prowess in the early 1990s.

The most recent Atom used in laptops is from 2016 and it was hardly fast back then. Up until recently, there were separate brands for Celeron and Pentium processors. Intel has now bundled both of them ...