The Pentium 4 will become Intel's primary microprocessor in terms of volume by early 2002 or late 2001, company executives said today--earlier than anticipated. Paul Otellini, general manager of ...

Intel opened the hood of its next-generation microprocessor this week, revealing details about the Pentium 4's new microarchitecture to developers. The company said its NetBurst microarchitecture ...

The Prescott processor, an enhanced version of the Pentium 4 set for release in early February, will feature a pipeline--the equivalent of a assembly line inside a chip--that will be substantially ...

The Pentium 4 will have some substantial advantages over the Pentium III processor, which made its debut in 1998. The memory bus will use data-doubling technology to reach its 400MHz speed, which ...

The chip maker cut its high-end, 2GHz Pentium 4 by 29 percent from $562 to $401 in 1,000-unit quantities. Intel cut 1.9GHzPentium 4 processors from $375 to $273, or 27 percent, and 1.8GHz processors ...

Intel is quietly letting its customers know that it has pulled the plug on a planned 4.0-GHz speed grade of its Pentium 4 processor, VARBusiness has learned. “This is a customer communication,” an ...

The chip, a Pentium III processor designed to run at a speed of 1.13 gigahertz, exhibits a flaw that can bring some computing operations crashing to a halt under certain conditions.

Even the most feeble 4-bit processors far outsell 32-bit processors like the Pentium. Old microprocessors rarely die, and they hardly ever fade away – they just become embedded.

SAN JOSE, Calif. In the latest misstep for the world s largest chip maker, Intel Corp. said a faster version of its flagship Pentium 4 microprocessor will not be available by the end of the year ...