As it prepares to announce fourth-quarter earnings Tuesday, Intel is putting the pedal to the metal with its Pentium 4 chip. Analysts said the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker will be shipping the ...

Intel is preparing a Pentium 4 blitz for the remainder of 2001, aiming to drive the chip into the heart of the desktop PC market before the end of the year, executives said Tuesday during a conference ...

A possible glitch with a new processor has thrown a wrench into Intel's plans to bring out new silicon for high-performance chips for top-of-the-line PCs. Intel delivered a new chipset on schedule ...

Intel on Monday announced the release of a pair of high-speed Pentium 4 processors. As previously reported by CNET News.com, the chipmaker is trumpeting the availability of 1.8GHz and 1.6GHz Pentium 4 ...

Intel has introduced a faster version of its Pentium 4 processor clocked at 1.7GHz, a significant step up from the 1.5GHz speed the CPU has featured since Intel first launched it nearly six months ago ...

The rollout ignited speculation as to whether Via's continued defiance of Intel's licensing requirements will lead the companies to resume a court battle that was amicably-if only partially-settled ...

Intel Corp. is planning to introduce over the coming months eight new Pentium 4 processors utilizing a new packaging technique, including its first workstation processors with 64-bit extensions ...

Intel Corp. this week cut prices up to 52% on a number of Pentium 4 desktop and mobile processors. The price revisions listed on the Intel web site showed that the 2.4-GHz desktop P4 dropped 52% to ...

This week at its developer forum in San Jose, Calif., Intel will reveal new details on the major architectural changes coming when the Pentium 4 is released later this year. Intel claims that the next ...

The Pentium 4 processor got a little faster Monday, as Intel bumped up the processor’s clock speed to 3.2GHz, making it the fastest chip in Intel’s product line. The new processor has an 800MHz ...

Intel's top Pentium chip, introduced in late 2000. The successor to the Pentium III, the Pentium 4 features the NetBurst micro-architecture (see NetBurst). All Pentium 4 chips are single core, while ...

Gaming is one area where dual-core CPUs become unstuck. As games tend to be single-threaded, you end up having each CPU only being taxed at up to 50%. That's precisely why the Pentium D 820 looks poor ...