[Ken Shirriff] has been sharing a really low-level look at Intel’s Pentium (1993) processor. The Pentium’s architecture was highly innovative in many ways, and one of [Ken]’s most recent discoveries ...

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 ...

33 years ago today, the Pentium lineage began, shaping decades of personal computing to come. The Pentium was Intel’s first superscalar design, an architectural feature that enabled the execution of ...

In this age, where AI models often demand cutting-edge GPUs and major computational resources, a recent experiment has shown us the feasibility of running a large language model (LLM) on a vintage ...

RIP, 486 processor. You've had a long run since Intel released you back in 1989. While Microsoft stopped supporting you with the release of Windows XP in 2001, Linux kept you alive and well for ...

All Computers Inc. filed a patent lawsuit against Intel Corp. Thursday claiming that Intel’s Pentium II processor infringed upon a circuit design patented by All Computers. The lawsuit seeks over ...

MSI X-Slim laptop will sport high-powered Pentium chip and Windows Vista to better compete against Apple's ultra-thin MacBook Air Micro-Star International (MSI) plans to sell a laptop in its X-Slim ...

All Computers Inc. filed a patent lawsuit against Intel Thursday claiming that Intel’s Pentium II processor infringed upon a circuit design patented by All Computers. All Computers Inc. filed a patent ...

Intel Corp. today launched three updated versions of its Pentium M processors for laptop computers, as the company looks to build on its success with wireless Internet access using laptop PCs. The new ...

The processors in today’s computers have grown tremendously in performance, capabilities and complexity over the past decade. Clock speed has skyrocketed, and size has dwindled, even as the number of ...