Noted hardware historian and reverse-engineer Ken Shirriff recently found the exact transistors in the original Intel Pentium which caused the "FDIV bug", leading to a $475 million recall in 1994.

Case in point an original (P54C) Intel Pentium, which [Ken Shirriff] took an in-depth look at. Using a by now almost unimaginably large 600 nm process, the individual elements of these standard ...

Released in 1993, Intel’s Pentium processor was a marvel of technological progress. Its floating point unit (FPU) was a big improvement over its predecessors that still used the venerable CORDIC ...

Vinod Dham, an Indian-American engineer famously known as the 'Father of the Pentium Chip,' has left an indelible mark on ...

Ajay V Bhatt, a prominent technologist and the creator of the Universal Service Bus (USB) and Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) ...

Intel is receiving mostly positive feedback for its handling of the Sandy Bridge chipset recall, and a big reason for that may be the chip maker's past missteps in dealing with high-profile design ...

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 ...

VC firm Accel India’s founding partner Prashanth Prakash has been conferred India’s fourth-highest civilian Award, Padma Shri ...

By comparison, the 90nm Prescott-based Pentium 4 521 was set at the same frequency and had an 84w TDP while the upcoming 65nm Core 2 Duo had a maximum TDP of 65w when clocked at 3GHz.

TL;DR: Intel has discontinued its RS1 stock cooler, which was bundled with the entry-level Pentium G7400 and Celeron G6900 processors. The RS1 will not have a direct successor, instead the ...