Digital (DEC) and IBM (IBM), among other manufacturers, will usher in 1998 with notebooks based around a new 266-MHz Pentium MMX processor from Intel. The 266-MHz Pentium MMX chips for mobile ...

LAS VEGAS--Umax is quietly displaying a "thin-and-wide" notebook prototype of the VisualNote 500 series with a 266-MHz Pentium II processor and Windows 98, neither of which are officially shipping yet ...

The successor to the Pentium Pro from Intel. Pentium II refers to the CPU chip or the PC that uses it. Code-named Klamath, the Pentium II was a Pentium Pro with MMX multimedia instructions. Introduced ...

Klamath is no more. Intel has officially confirmed the name of its new sideways processor card, now expected to arrive in July, as the Pentium II. The move drew instant fire from hardware vendors. One ...

Both the bane and the bounty of writing these Baedekers to the binary beat stem from the fact that this writer gets to hand out advice. People actually ask me for help on decisions that will cost them ...

Last night, I was sitting around thinking about Intel's forthcoming discrete GPU, codenamed "Larrabee." Specifically, I was thinking about how Larrabee will have lots of simple, in-order cores with a ...

In this age, where AI models often demand cutting-edge GPUs and major computational resources, a recent experiment has shown us the feasibility of running a large language model (LLM) on a vintage ...

To celebrate the 40th birthday of the Intel 4004 -- the first single-chip CPU -- we're going to take a look at the history of Intel's microprocessors. We'll start with the 4004 but quickly move onto ...