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 ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Intel Corp., working to keep up the pressure on rivals and potentially goose fourth-quarter sales, has again slashed prices on its desktop processors. The chip maker cut its high ...

Glitches in Intel Corp.’s heralded Pentium microprocessor prompted IBM to halt shipments Monday of personal computers equipped with the microchip, amplifying a public-relations nightmare for the world ...

Intel Corporation has introduced a new version of the Intel Pentium 4 Processor with Hyper-Threading (HT) Technology** at 3.2GHz. Pentium 4 processor-based PCs and Intel Xeon-based servers with HT ...

Micro-Star International (MSI) plans to sell a laptop in its X-Slim series with a high powered Pentium chip to better compete against Apple’s ultra-thin MacBook Air. The company showed off its first X ...

The brains of the PC is a central processing unit (CPU) made by Intel or AMD (Advanced Micro Devices). It stems from the Intel 8086 (x86) architecture in the IBM PC in 1981. Following is a brief ...

Like so many of my fellow upwardly striving, debt-ridden Americans, I bought a family computer for Christmas. And because I wanted the very best for my family’s computing needs, I bought one with the ...

With the launch of Intel's Pentium M/Centrino technology, the company is putting its silicon where its mouth is. Intel has long said both that the notebook market will be one of the major growth areas ...

Putting the new Intel Pentium microprocessor inside the sort of personal computers now using the company’s 486 chips will add about $3,000 to the price tag slapped on the outside, according to ...