A CPU chip that contains two distinct processing units that work in parallel. IBM introduced dual core Power 4 CPUs in 2000, followed by Sun and HP in 2004 and x86-based Pentiums in 2005.

All in all, this glimpse at the internals of a Pentium processor provides a fascinating snapshot of high-end Intel semiconductor prowess in the early 1990s.

Processors with similar names could be anything from brand new to 15-plus years old. For example, Core i5 processors from 2008 have the ... Up until recently, there were separate brands for Celeron ...

[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 ...

Introduced in 2014, Core M is a family of power-efficient CPU chips ... in single, dual and quad core models. See Core 2. In early 2006, and based on the existing Pentium M (mobile) architecture ...