The splashy launch of their new Pentium chip in 1993 was a huge event ... The issue was discovered by [Dr. Thomas R. Nicely] as he searched for prime numbers. It’s a bit of an understatement ...

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 ...

The term may refer to the chip or to a PC that uses it. Introduced in 1995 as the successor to the Pentium, models from 150 MHz to 200 MHz were released. Using the first generation of Intel's ...