March 22, 1993, marked a defining moment in personal computing. Intel officially launched the Pentium processor, a ...

This iconic CPU also boasted Intel’s first superscalar architecture, but wasn’t without its issues.

The Pentium technology is widely accepted today. The marketplace made the transition from the 486 to the Pentium faster than any previous Intel processor. Today, the Pentium 133 MHz processor brings a ...

The Intel Corp.’s Pentium microprocessor made its formal debut last week as the eventual successor to the popular i486 chip. At the same time, at least a dozen PC makers made known their plans for ...

[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 ...

As I wrote my recent Prescott article, it seemed to me that what I was really writing was something very much like the final article in a series of articles on the growth and development of the ...

Adrian has been a tech enthusiast since the 90s with a particular passion for gaming that developed thanks to his first gaming outings on Pong, Zork and Space Invaders. In the years that followed he ...

Because there is a lot of "compatibility glue" in the Linux kernel – is what Ingo Molnar calls it –, the prominent developer now wants to get rid of some of it: Support for x86 processors of the 486 ...