The first CPU to reach a clock speed of 4 GHz was the Pentium 4 570 released in November 2004 as part of Intel's NetBurst microarchitecture, but this milestone wasn't achieved out of the box.

Noted hardware historian and reverse-engineer Ken Shirriff recently found the exact transistors in the original Intel Pentium which caused the "FDIV bug", leading to a $475 million recall in 1994.

The first processors to roll off this new fabrication process will be current-gen Pentium 4s code-named "Cedar Mill." Based on Intel's current NetBurst architecture, these are single-core CPUs ...

Starting in 1994, AMD introduced its first Pentium-compatible CPU, the K5. It was followed by the K6 and then the Athlon line in 1999. The Duron was subsequently introduced for the value market to ...

First simple and then more advanced auto-routing ... All in all, this glimpse at the internals of a Pentium processor provides a fascinating snapshot of high-end Intel semiconductor prowess ...

Released in 1993, Intel’s Pentium processor was a marvel of technological ... but it starts with a mysterious first bit with no apparent purpose. After analyzing and transcribing the 304 total ...

He invented the first Pentium Processor that made Intel the world’s biggest chip-maker. He then invented the AMD K6, popularly known as the ‘Pentium Killer’. He has the most cracking ...

All Pentium 4 chips are single core, while dual-core Pentium models such as Pentium D and Pentium Processor Extreme Editions ... Pentium 4 chips were first built with 180nm process technology ...

The company's Pentium G2020 dual-core processor, launched in the first quarter of 2013, comes with a 512-KB Level 2 cache and a maximum of 32 GB of memory. The 64-bit chip also comes with Intel HD ...

Vinod Dham, an Indian-American engineer famously known as the 'Father of the Pentium Chip,' has left an indelible mark on ...