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 ...

Intel’s processor lineup used to be, in the words of one of our greatest working artists, all about the Pentiums. That became less true beginning in the mid-2000s, when the modern “Core” branding was ...

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 ...

If you're old enough then you'll remember the GHz race of the day between Intel and AMD, the race towards 1000MHz (1GHz) was a huge deal... and then we went to dual-core CPUs, and the Pentium brand ...

‘Intel Processor’ is the new product name for its low-tier CPUs. Say goodbye to Pentium and Celeron and hello to “Intel Processor”-branded chips in notebooks in 2023, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based ...

April is speed month for Intel, which has faster desktop and mobile Pentium 4 chips ready to roll. The chipmaker on Tuesday announced its fastest Pentium 4 chip to date, a 2.4GHz processor for desktop ...

Intel announced today that its upcoming microprocessor, formerly known as Willamette, will be named the Pentium 4 when it's released this fall. The Pentium 4 marks the biggest change in the core ...

Providing power for the Pentium® microprocessor family is not a trivial task by any means. In an effort to simplify this task we have developed a new switching regulator control circuit and a new ...

The Plug-N-Run G3 system-on-module (SoM) claims to be the first to use the 1.1- and 1.6-GHz Pentium M microprocessor for industrial automation applications like robots and process-control consoles.

Intel is the consummate flirt. With each new chip, the giant chip maker promises us speed, brawn, and sparkle, enticing us to buy yet another PC. The problem is, we're getting bored with the ...

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 ...