The weaving was based on a die shot of the original Intel Pentium processor from the early 90s containing around three ...

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.

Whereas the CPUs and similar ASICs of the 1970s ... structures under an optical microscope. Case in point an original (P54C) Intel Pentium, which [Ken Shirriff] took an in-depth look at.

Also new is a lightning-fast 1066 front side bus. This group of CPUs will replace the original Pentium D 800 series, but it appears that the dual-die downside to the 800 series will also be ...

Subsequent 32-bit 386, 486 and Pentium CPUs also included a 16-bit operating mode to conform to the original standard in order to run all the DOS and 16-bit Windows 3.x applications on the market.

Intel's first dual core 64-bit (Intel 64) Pentium CPU with Hyper-Threading. The first model, the Extreme Edition 840, was introduced in 2005 with a clock rate of 3.2 GHz. It is the same as the ...