Looking at ads for fully-loaded computer systems with Pentium 4 chips running at 2 gigaherz, you may have wondered: Would having a system like that make a difference? Would I even notice? That depends ...

Our creative director Aurich Lawson is building a PC to power a custom arcade cabinet, and he was having trouble picking a processor. Not because he didn’t know what he needed, but because he was ...

Like that Simpsons episode where the director's commentary for The Postman is just Kevin Costner repeatedly apologizing into his microphone, there needs to be a monument to the Intel Pentium 4 ...

In 1994, Andrew S. Grove was facing one of the most challenging times in his life as chairman and chief executive of Intel Corp., and in his personal life. Intel’s troubles began when a flaw turned up ...

We dive into the history of Intel CPUs and the x86 architecture. From the very first microprocessor, through to the father of modern CPUs. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Normally when a computer executive gets up on a stage to unveil some small computer, he pulls it out of his jacket pocket to reveal ...

THOMAS Nicely just couldn’t make the numbers work. On June 13, after running billions of calculations on his Pentium computer, the Lynchburg (Va.) College math professor discovered the numbers didn’t ...