The Pentium 4 is a radical new architecture for Intel--an introduction of the same order as the 386, 486, Pentium and Pentium II processors. The chip has a multimedia-oriented design--the so-called ...

Ending months of anticipation, Intel Corp. Monday will release the Pentium, an inch-square computer chip capable of running personal computers at five times the speed of the chip it is destined to ...

Putting the new Intel Pentium microprocessor inside the sort of personal computers now using the company’s 486 chips will add about $3,000 to the price tag slapped on the outside, according to ...

RIP, 486 processor. You've had a long run since Intel released you back in 1989. While Microsoft stopped supporting you with the release of Windows XP in 2001, Linux kept you alive and well for ...

To celebrate the 40th birthday of the Intel 4004 -- the first single-chip CPU -- we're going to take a look at the history of Intel's microprocessors. We'll start with the 4004 but quickly move onto ...