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30-year-old Pentium FDIV bug tracked down in the silicon — Ken Shirriff takes the microscope to Intel's first-ever recall
The image seen above is a photo of the CPU die of the original Pentium chip ... The die contains 3.1 million transistors, with transistor grids being visible to microscopic vision and the ...
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Lessons Learned: Pentium Flaws Aid Intel In Sandy Bridge Chipset Recall
Intel is receiving mostly positive feedback for its handling of the Sandy Bridge chipset recall, and a big reason for that may be the chip maker's past missteps in dealing with high-profile design ...
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Reverse-Engineering The Polynomial Constants In The Pentium’s FPU
Released in 1993, Intel’s Pentium processor was a marvel of technological ... die that enable its use of polynomials. Even with 3.1 million transistors, the Pentium die is still on a large ...
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PC CPU models
Starting in 1994, AMD introduced its first Pentium-compatible CPU, the K5. It was followed by ... was rarely used for applications until Windows 3.0 became popular. By then, 386s and 486s were ...
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Intel processors explained: What is Core i3, i5, i7, Ultra and Pentium?
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 ...