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 ...

The Pentium 4 can handily run Windows 7. The operating system's only CPU requirements are a clock speed of at least 1 GHz, support for 32- or 64-bit computing and the ability to support at least ...

One of the Pentium M's innovations is that different components within the processor chip can effectively shut down altogether when not in use, even during a single clock cycle.

Intel Corp. introduced its Pentium 4 processor at 1.7 gigahertz, the company's highest-performance microprocessor for desktop computers and, as expected, slashed prices on the chip by as much as 51%.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Today’s newest processors, the Pentium 4 and PowerPC 7450, go further and place the L2 cache on the CPU chip itself, providing high-speed support for a tertiary Level 3 external cache.