The successor to the Pentium II from Intel. Introduced in the spring of 1999 at 500 MHz, the Pentium III architecture was similar to the Pentium II with the addition of 70 new instructions ...

However, the Pentium III issue gave Intel critics further evidence that ... of Cougar Point SATA ports may degrade over a few years inside notebooks. He added that the chipset had passed several ...

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 ...