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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.