The Intel Corp.’s Pentium microprocessor made its formal debut last week as the eventual successor to the popular i486 chip. At the same time, at least a dozen PC makers made known their plans for ...

[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 ...

Ending months of anticipation, Intel Corp. Monday will release the Pentium, an inch-square computer chip capable of running personal computers at five times the speed of the chip it is destined to ...

As I wrote my recent Prescott article, it seemed to me that what I was really writing was something very much like the final article in a series of articles on the growth and development of the ...

Another month passes and we hear another announcement from Intel with respect to their Pentium 4 processors. It seems like only yesterday when the new 0.13u 'Northwood' processors were officially ...

Because there is a lot of "compatibility glue" in the Linux kernel – is what Ingo Molnar calls it –, the prominent developer now wants to get rid of some of it: Support for x86 processors of the 486 ...