Until 1992, when Lexicon came up with the name Pentium for a computer chip made by Intel Corporation, microprocessors were identified by number.

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's microprocessors was unseasonably high, according to the chip maker, helping it report a 25.0% boost in second-quarter earnings late Tuesday.

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Global demand for Intel's microprocessors was unseasonably high, according to the chip maker, helping it report a 25.0% boost in second-quarter earnings late Tuesday.

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Until a couple of years ago, plastic chip packages either couldn't stand the heat put out by microprocessors or cost up to several times as much as ceramics to whip up with the necessary properties.

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This year Intel will lap AMD by finally scrapping the old Pentium-chip architecture in favor of a suite of lower-temperature, dual-core microprocessors that consume 35% less power and increase performance by 80%.

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In 1984 he and Intel cofounder Gordon Moore decided to abandon the memory chip business that gave the company its start for what became a dizzyingly successful string of microprocessors.

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Intel's microprocessors were then taking off--and investors were looking to knock out Intel with a new chip, even one as crazy as a rat smell center.

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