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 ...

Desktop Processor suffixes 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.

The Pentium's floating point unit was much faster than contemporary chips, thanks to the SRT division algorithm. SRT calculates division at two bits per clock cycle, compared to one bit per clock ...

On the right is an image of Intel's first-ever Pentium processor die, released in 1993. To its left is an image of the same processor, woven into a rug in the traditional Navajo style.

It's not that they're terrible, but the Pentium G4560 is slower than any Core i5 or i7 processor released in the past six years. If you have a PC with such a CPU, you wouldn't want to downgrade by ...

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 ...

The splashy launch of their new Pentium chip in 1993 was a huge event. Unfortunately an esoteric bug in the floating-point division module came to the public’s attention.

The Pentium 4 was the first CPU to really require the large heatsink-and-fan assemblies that we still use today, with some of the first Pentium 4 PCs being equipped with wind tunnels to link the ...

Banias, or the Pentium M (as it's now called) is clearly the latest and greatest version of Intel's venerable "P6" microarchitecture, on which Intel's 32-bit desktop chips from the Pentium Pro ...

On June 13, after running billions of calculations on his Pentium computer, the Lynchburg (Va.) College math professor discovered the numbers didn’t divide right.

Intel also disclosed that the Pentium 4's Level 2 cache size will be 256KB, and it will get a 400MHz system bus. The system bus provides a pipeline between the chip and I/O subsystems of a PC ...