The sixth generation of the Intel x86 family of CPU chips. 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 ...

Since the primitive 4004 chip first designed for a line of calculators, Intel has been a processor company. And in all of the company's decades of processor design and fabrication, Intel has seen only ...

Back in the dark ages (1995) Intel introduced P6 architecture for the very high-end market in the form of the Pentium pro processor. P6 has stayed its ground and has only just been superseded with the ...

The Pentium Pro is around now for several years and still it never made it to a best seller as its siblings Pentium, Pentium w/MMX and Pentium II. The main reason for that is and was its weakness with ...

Since its introduction in the mid-90s, Intel's P6 core micro architecture has gone from strength to strength. The initial chip to feature this new design was the Pentium Pro, a chip that most will ...

In light of the recent switchover to BeOS as the operating system focus here at BeOS Journal, we'd like to start the "Purple for Pentium Pro" campaign. The Pentium Pro processor is often scoffed at by ...

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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 ...

How good are these processors when used in a dual processor configuration? I'm asking because they can be had for so little on ebay, and I thought it would be a good way to build a cheap server. Or ...

All computers, from the sleekest iPhone to the chunkiest webserver, have something in common: a central processing unit, or CPU. With billions of transistors crammed into a slice of silicon the size ...