The “x3 circuit”, a nontrivial portion of the Pentium processor, is dedicated to multiplying ... fewer operations than doing so in base-2 (binary). Instead of handling each bit separately ...

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.

The most recent Atom used in laptops is from 2016 and it was hardly fast back then. 'Atom' branding is no longer part of Intel's current processor lineup. Up until recently, there were separate brands ...

X (formerly Twitter) user Andrei David just installed and ran an AI model based on Andrej Karpathy’s llama2.c on a nearly 20-year-old Xbox 360 console. Despite its age, David used a bootloader to load ...