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 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.

Pentium achieves a two-instruction issue peak and has two five-stage pipelines (U and V) for each instruction. A common instruction fetch/align stage, which fetches multiple instructions from the ...

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 Corp. plans to exhibit its powerful Pentium 4 this week and to unveil both a new processor for wireless devices and faster chips for server computers. About 5,000 people are expected at the ...

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.

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 ...

On June 13, after running billions of calculations on his Pentium computer, the Lynchburg (Va.) College math professor discovered the numbers didn’t divide right.