The “x3 circuit”, a nontrivial portion of the Pentium processor, is dedicated to multiplying ... by two is the same as shifting left by 1 bit, for example) but multiplying by three is the ...

Following is a brief history of PC CPUs, starting with the most current. Starting in 1994, AMD introduced its first Pentium-compatible CPU, the K5. It was followed by the K6 and then the Athlon ...

2024 marks the 30th anniversary of Intel's announcement of a math glitch on some of its Pentium CPUs (via Heise). In 1993, Intel launched its first generation Pentium CPUs, which used the new P5 ...

If the system becomes unstable you may have to bump up the processor voltage (which involves another piece of wire). In the article, Dan Zhang is able to take a 1.8GHz Pentium M to 2.4GHz.

1. The Pentium D-lemma. Intel's early 2006 release of the new 900 series of Pentium D dual-core processors should result in low prices for 800 series dual-core CPUs. This may present the ...