Released in 1993, Intel’s Pentium processor was a marvel of technological progress. Its floating point unit (FPU) was a big improvement over its predecessors that still used the venerable CORDIC ...

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 Corp. will rebrand its Pentium and Celeron lines of entry-level laptop processors next year, the company announced today. The two processor lines will be offered under a new brand, Intel ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Intel Corp. has rolled out a trio of microprocessors for the mobile computing segment, including a new version of the Pentium III that runs at 1 GHz. And while the company plans to ...

Intel just announced plans to retire Pentium and Celeron - two iconic CPU brands that first arrived back in the '90s. While both longstanding labels will depart in Q1 2023, the tech giant says it'll ...

Intel has used the Celeron and Pentium brands for CPUs since the 1990s, but they're finally fading away — if not quite in the way you'd expect. The company is replacing both brand names for low-end ...

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 ...

Chips in devices like the Surface Laptop SE and Surface Go will soon be under a different branding from Intel. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

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 ...

Why it matters: Earlier this month, overclocking enthusiasts discovered it's possible to overclock Intel's non-K Alder Lake CPUs when paired with a high-end motherboard. For instance, with the right ...