RIP, 486 processor. You've had a long run since Intel released you back in 1989. While Microsoft stopped supporting you with ...

[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 ...

Conventional wisdom says you need a mountain of Nvidia GPUs at about $50,000 a pop to have a chance of running the latest AI ...

Before we started posting Fails, we would fire up our Pentium Processors and compile wins for you guys. Sure the internet was ...

In 1993, Intel was making some headway in that regard. The splashy launch of their new Pentium chip in 1993 was a huge event. Unfortunately an esoteric bug in the floating-point division module ...

The term may refer to the chip or to a PC that uses it. Introduced in 1995 as the successor to the Pentium, models from 150 MHz to 200 MHz were released. Using the first generation of Intel's ...

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 ...

Introduced in 2004, the second-generation Pentium M (code-named Dothan) uses the same chip package but is built with 90 nm circuits rather than 130 nm. Dothan added support for the PCI Express bus ...

Intel recalled the Pentium P5 chip in 1995 that produced errors for certain calculations. The recalled chips were turned into keychains for Intel employees. The keychains had an inscription from ...

Pentium II was introduced on May 7, 1997, The Intel Pentium II represented a major development in microprocessor technology. Featuring the P6 microarchitecture and including MMX technology ...

Usefulness of the new Pentium 4 core is not about the rise in performance only, but rather in those advanced technologies it is equipped with: improved anti-virus protection and security, better ...

Linux kernel 6.15 is ending support for some very old computer processors such as Intel 486 and the early Pentium (i586 or P5 ...