[Ken Shirriff] has been sharing a really low-level look at Intel’s Pentium (1993) processor. The Pentium’s architecture was highly innovative in many ways, and one of [Ken]’s most recent discoveries ...

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 ...

It's not. They're dropping support for both 486 and the 586 compatible CPUs including any CPU prior to Pentiium Pro. For practical purposes, that's anything before Pentium 2 chips since I don't ...

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 ...

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Another month passes and we hear another announcement from Intel with respect to their Pentium 4 processors. It seems like only yesterday when the new 0.13u 'Northwood' processors were officially ...

First off, if my prices are too high, just let offer me a price and I'll consider it... I need to sell this stuff...<P>I have some motherboard combos here that I will not be using anymore and will be ...

It's pretty much obvious that the Tualatin range of processors were practise for Intel's recent move to a 0.13 micron process for the Pentium 4. Built on the 0.13u process and home to either 256kb or ...