The early 1990s were an interesting time in the PC world, mainly because PCs were entering the zeitgeist for the first time.

The most recent Atom used in laptops is from 2016 and it was hardly fast back then. Up until recently, there were separate brands for Celeron and Pentium processors. Intel has now bundled both of them ...

The sixth generation of the Intel x86 family of CPU chips. The term may refer to the chip or to a PC that uses it. Introduced in 1995 as the successor to the Pentium, models from 150 MHz to 200 ...

Intel's top Pentium chip, introduced in late 2000. The successor to the Pentium III, the Pentium 4 features the NetBurst micro-architecture (see NetBurst). All Pentium 4 chips are single core ...

Next: Pentium FDIV Versus Cougar Point Intel's handling of the Sandy Bridge ... of Cougar Point SATA ports may degrade over a few years inside notebooks. He added that the chipset had passed ...

In 1994, Intel faced its first major recall due to the FDIV bug in the original Pentium processor, resulting in a financial loss of approximately $475 million USD. The issue stemmed from specific ...

The transition hasn't been entirely smooth -- particularly for Intel, whose Pentium D series of dual-core processors were the target of frequent snipes from techno-critics disappointed by the ...