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Microsoft just turned 50 and there's no better time to revisit Windows logos. Here's a brief on Windows Logo evolution.
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 ...
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 ...
By comparison, the 90nm Prescott-based Pentium 4 521 was set at the same frequency and had an 84w TDP while the upcoming 65nm Core 2 Duo had a maximum TDP of 65w when clocked at 3GHz.
Although chips including Intel's Pentium 4 series could be overclocked beyond 4GHz before the arrival of AMD's Bulldozer series, it was an AMD's FX chip that marked the debut of the first factory ...