Intel's top Pentium chip, introduced in late 2000. The successor to the Pentium III, the Pentium 4 features the NetBurst micro-architecture (see NetBurst). All Pentium 4 chips are single core, while ...

Since its introduction in the mid-90s, Intel's P6 core micro architecture has gone from strength to strength. The initial chip to feature this new design was the Pentium Pro, a chip that most will ...

Intel will celebrate the Fourth of July with the launch of faster Pentium 4 chips, but don't expect fireworks or a major bump in lagging Pentium 4 sales. The chipmaker will release 1.8GHz and 1.6GHz ...

Intel's new Pentium 4 chip may find itself caught in the summer doldrums. The chipmaker, which told financial analysts in January that it expected to sell 20 million or more Pentium 4 chips this year, ...

Continuing to use an old processor for business machines can save money, as long as it doesn't slow you down. First released in 2000, the Pentium 4 family of Intel central processing unit chips sold ...

The chipmaker is advancing its release schedule of new 2.8GHz and 3GHz Pentium 4 chips in an effort to speed ahead of rival AMD. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers ...

Intel on Sunday dropped prices on a range of Pentium 4 processors, some by more than a third. The fastest version of the chip, the 3.6GHz Pentium 4 560, dropped by 35 percent from $637 to $417. The ...

Chipmaker Intel Corporation (INTC) has agreed to settle a 10 year old Pentium 4 Benchmark Manipulation Class Action Lawsuit by offering $15 to Pentium 4-powered PC owners. The eligible buyers will ...

Intel Corp.'s new Pentium 4 microprocessor may be living up to expectations in terms of its ability to run multimedia software, but the industry's fastest CPU is not outperforming its predecessor in ...

Back in the olden days, before Abraham Lincoln put an end to the megahertz myth -- or was it Theodore Roosevelt, we always get so confused -- the Pentium 4 ruled the land, with its deep instruction ...

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 ...

In an unexpected move, Intel today announced that it will not move ahead with a 4GHz Pentium 4 after all. The chip, originally scheduled to appear by year end, is being cast aside in favor of ...