Just like yesterday's muscle cars, the new 133 MHz Pentium processor (P133) delivers copious amounts of power. This newest member of Intel's racing team came onboard in mid-June and has already taken ...

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 ...

All the big talk in the consumer processor world is of dual-core designs. Two processors on one die, sharing or having exclusive caches, is an extension of multi-processing, multi-processing being a ...

Intel has spent millions making their "Core" brand synonymous with high performance processing. In these days of the Core Duo, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, and Core 2 Extreme, it’s pretty easy to find a ...

As I wrote my recent Prescott article, it seemed to me that what I was really writing was something very much like the final article in a series of articles on the growth and development of the ...

Intel on Tuesday introduced a quartet of low-power processors for lightweight notebooks and tablet PCs. The new chips include two ultralow-voltage Pentium Ms with clock speeds of 1.1GHz and 1GHz and a ...

Intel ships the Pentium E2140 with a standard Socket-775 heatsink/fan cooling unit which looks identical to the Core 2 Duo cooling units we’ve seen in the past. However, since these processors don’t ...