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.

Starting in 1994, AMD introduced its first Pentium-compatible CPU, the K5. It was followed ... extremely sluggish under Windows. See 286. The original PC launched by IBM in 1981 used Intel's ...

Case in point an original (P54C) Intel Pentium ... All in all, this glimpse at the internals of a Pentium processor provides a fascinating snapshot of high-end Intel semiconductor prowess in ...

This group of CPUs will replace the original Pentium D 800 series, but it appears that the dual-die downside to the 800 series will also be present in Presler processors: the 900 series CPU cores ...

while dual-core Pentium models such as Pentium D and Pentium Processor Extreme Editions omit the "4" designation. See Pentium. Available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions with and without Hyper ...

Later, the company offered to replace processors -- but for only those ... nothing as subtle as the original Pentium flaw." Next: The Pentium FDIV Bug The massive fallout from the Pentium FDIV ...

He invented the first Pentium Processor that made Intel the world ... been scaled over the last 40 years to one billionth of the original. You’ve not scaled only one thing, and that’s ...

The most recent Atom used in laptops is from 2016 and it was hardly fast back then. Up until recently, there were separate brands for Celeron and Pentium processors. Intel has now bundled both of them ...