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Pentium prices drop prior to official cuts
News Intel plans to cut prices on its Pentium 4 chips soon, but many dealers have already lowered prices on the processors as a way to clear out inventory. Retailers are selling Pentium 4 chips for less than Intel's official wholesale prices, meaning...
[August 21, 2002, 8:04]
Pentium 4-M chills out in notebooks
News Intel has launched its hotly anticipated mobile Pentium 4 processors, having stepped up the launch schedule amidst pressure from PC makers eager to update their laptop computer offerings. The Pentium 4-M processor is the first time the Pentium 4...
[March 4, 2002, 13:03]
Pentium D prices tipped to plunge
News If you're in the market for one of Intel's Pentium D processors, you might want to wait a month or two. Intel plans to push the prices of its Pentium chips way down its pricing list when it introduces the new Core chips next month.
[June 9, 2006, 9:05]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP: Internet performance review
Reviews An Athlon XP/2000+ is already as fast as the Pentium 4/2533. With a performance difference of 43.5 percent between the fastest (Athlon/XP2100+) and slowest (Pentium 4/2000) processors, a CPU upgrade is particularly noticeable.
[May 16, 2002, 16:38]
Pentium 4 may miss sales targets
News Pentium 4 will not hit Intel's sales targets for 2001 because of its reliance on Rambus memory, according to a leading industry analyst. He said Intel had sold about 800,000 Pentium 4 units in the first quarter of 2001, according to a Blooomberg...
[June 19, 2001, 12:25]
Pentium II detail thin on the ground
News The chip, a Pentium Pro core with MMX instruction set incorporated, was given its new moniker as "a recognition of the great equity that has been built up in the Pentium name", said Intel spokeswoman Gail Hall.
[February 17, 1997, 10:28]
Pentium II to rev up to 400MHz
News Intel yesterday showed a 233MHz Pentium II but said it will also release a 400MHz version of the chip. All Pentium II CPUs will ship in a cartridge package; initial shipments are in early May. Early benchmarking of Pentium II systems suggest the...
[April 17, 1997, 14:18]
Pentium 4 delay gives AMD top spot
News Intel won't release another version of the Pentium 4 until early 2002, sources say, in a move that will likely put the performance crown back on AMD's head -- at least for a short time. Northwood," a 2.2GHz Pentium 4 based on the 130-nanometer...
[October 12, 2001, 16:52]
Intel: Pentium 4 to clock up 1.8GHz
News Intel will celebrate the Fourth of July, America's Independence Day, 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 Pentium 4 processors...
[June 19, 2001, 8:46]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP: rendering performance review
Reviews Despite a new version 2.46 of 3D Studio Max that contains optimisations for the Pentium 4, rendering of simple 3D objects (Kinetix-logo) does not go faster with the new Pentium 4/2533 than with an Athlon XP/2100+.
[May 16, 2002, 16:37]
Pentium 4: Worth the price?
News Intel, which revealed a host of new details about its Pentium 4 processor this week at the Intel Developer Forum, is betting the chip will become the most desirable engine for high-horsepower PCs. But for analysts attending the conference, the big...
[August 25, 2000, 9:00]
IDF: Pentium 4 fails to light a spark
News Despite Intel putting its marketing muscle behind the new 2GHz Pentium 4 processor, launched on Monday, computer manufacturers and buyers are unlikely to be in any special hurry to place orders, say industry experts at the Intel Developer Forum.
[August 28, 2001, 9:46]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP: encoding performance review
Reviews The MP3 encoder MusicMatch Jukebox has been optimised in version 7.0 for Intel’s Pentium 4, allowing the new 2,533MHz Pentium 4 to just beat the Athlon XP/2100+. With a 46.5 percent performance difference between the Pentium 4/2533 (fastest) and...
[May 16, 2002, 16:36]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP: application performance review
Reviews With business applications such as Word, Excel, Notes and WinZip, which are all components of Business Winstone 2001, Intel’s new flagship 2533MHz Pentium 4 closes the gap on the Athlon XP/2100+. Even an Athlon XP/2000+ with DDR memory is faster...
[May 16, 2002, 16:35]
Pentium III bug hangs 810 chip
News PC makers with plans to offer low-cost desktops using Intel Corp.s Pentium III chip will need to go back to the drawing board lest their machines hang. An erratum that affects the Pentium III's SSE or Streaming SIMD multimedia instruction set is...
[June 3, 1999, 8:00]
Pentium 4: New chip, old problems
News With the Pentium 4, Intel has made the biggest update to its IA-32 processor line in many years. Old-style x86 instructions aren't that easy to pipeline, but the pipeline never touches them: by the time they get there, they've been translated into...
[November 20, 2000, 6:12]
Pentium name begins to fade away
Talkback first it was the boom of Pentium 1 then 2 and so on.and the race now comes to an end.with Pentium 4.the ones who are on the losing and paying side are the end consumers.the more the delay the more the advantage when buying any peripheral as every...
[December 22, 2005, 13:32]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP: conclusion review
Reviews Intel’s new 2,533MHz Pentium 4 with a 533MHz frontside bus is, barring a few exceptions, the fastest available processor for PC systems. Software manufacturers are likely to create ever more optimisations for the Pentium 4.
[May 16, 2002, 16:40]
Pentium M chips may face supply problems
News Samsung, Acer and Asustek Computer have all had trouble supplying Centrino laptops to their Chinese resellers, due to the tight supply of the Pentium M processor, according to a report in the Taiwanese industry journal Digitimes.
[April 7, 2003, 15:58]
Pentium 4 launches Monday
News Intel officials have confirmed the Pentium 4 will be released Monday and outlined plans to move the Pentium 4 into the mainstream PC market as rapidly as possible. While the Pentium 4 will begin its life at the very high end of the desktop PC...
[November 15, 2000, 7:58]
