[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 ...

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, using the Dothan architecture with Socket 479. Pentium M 750 has 2 MB of L2 ...

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 ...

GMKtec has introduced the NucBox G3 Ultra with a discontinued Tiger Lake CPU from 2020. It is paired with 16 GB of soldered ...

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Reddit user diegunguyman is the owner of the purported Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980 processor, sharing some images of the ES chip both on the front, and back. The Redditor posted on multiple ...

Intel Corp. is planning to introduce over the coming months eight new Pentium 4 processors utilizing a new packaging technique, including its first workstation processors with 64-bit extensions ...

If you look at the 8-pin cable running to the top-left corner of your motherboard, it's most likely two 4-pin cables joined ...

RIP, 486 processor. You've had a long run since Intel released you back in 1989. While Microsoft stopped supporting you with the release of Windows XP in 2001, Linux kept you alive and well for ...

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