2024 marks the 30th anniversary of Intel's announcement of a math glitch on some of its Pentium CPUs (via Heise). In 1993, Intel launched its first generation Pentium CPUs, which used the new P5 ...

[Ken Shirriff] has been sharing a really low-level look at Intel’s Pentium (1993) processor. The Pentium’s architecture was highly innovative in many ways, and one of [Ken]’s most recent discoveries ...

The Intel Pentium Silver N6000 was a mobile processor with 4 cores, launched in January 2021. It is part of the Pentium ...

Whereas the CPUs and similar ASICs of the 1970s had their transistors laid out manually, with the move from LSI to VLSI, it became necessary to optimize the process of laying out the transistors and ...

The Intel Pentium M 750 was a mobile processor with 1 core, launched in January 2005. It is part of the Pentium M lineup, ...

How's your Throwback Thursday going? As it happens, we've got a perfect post for you today, thanks to former Intel Performance Architect François Piednoel. Posting on LinkedIn, Piednoel shared an ...

Introduction: Even Intel failsFor many years, Intel has been a company that has driven technological innovation in the PC ...

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You've likely noticed notes about cores and threads when shopping for a new processor, but you may not realize they're two ...