Intel faced scandal in 1994 when it mishandled news about flaws in its Pentium chip.
Yau of Schroeders likes Elec and Eltek, which makes top of the line motherboards that carry Intel's state of the art Pentium chip.
Intel is cutting down the time between major Pentium chip introductions, thereby raising the ante for its competitors worldwide, who are falling further behind.
Despite some bumps in the road (notably some lean years in the mid-1980s and the Pentium chip bug in 1994), Moore and Noyce have never looked back.
If his invention works as he says it will, Intel could make a 20-gigahertz Pentium chip with the equipment it now uses to make a 2-gigahertz chip.
He aims to add the tagline "Hemi power" to ads for its vehicles, an effort similar to the "Intel Inside" tag that flags the Pentium chip in computers.
PS2's central processor, a 128-bit microprocessor developed by Sony and Toshiba, has twice the raw number-crunching power of Intel's most advanced Pentium chip used in professional desktop computers.
Engineers such as Vinod Dham started creating breakthrough technologies such as the Pentium chip, and entrepreneurs such as Kanwal Rekhi and Vinod Khosla co-founded companies like Excelan and Sun Microsystems.
The newest Intel Pentium chip has such densely packed circuits that it consumes the same power as a 100-watt lightbulb with a filament burning as hot as 4, 500 degrees Fahrenheit--one you'd have to wear mittens to unscrew.
The model 70CT, with a port replicator, includes a 120-MHz Pentium MMX chip, a 1.5GB hard drive, and PC Card slots.
Intel has had difficulty keeping up with demand for its higher speed Pentium IIIs, particularly its Coppermine processor, a 733 MHz Pentium III chip.
The laptop-sized PS3 will boast a high-speed internet connection and microprocessor that is several times faster than Intel's Pentium 4 chip used in PCs and game consoles.
Two published reports assert that Compaq found no significant advantage from the Crusoe, compared with Intel 's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people) new low-power Pentium III chip.
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%.
The PS3--also known as "The Cell" for featuring a high speed microprocessor that is said to run rings around Intel's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Pentium 4 chip--also has the upcoming Ninetendo Revolution to contend with.
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Until 1992, when Lexicon came up with the name Pentium for a computer chip made by Intel Corporation, microprocessors were identified by number.
The chip offers the processing power of second-generation Pentium M processors, with the power consumption of a cellphone chip.
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This is why a new Intel chip clocked much lower than the old Pentium 4 chips can still run circles around them.
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That's when the chip giant is expected to announce even faster Pentium III processors with the dual-speed Geyserville technology.
The Pentium III is essentially a Pentium II processor, with the same 512KB off-chip secondary cache and 100-MHz system bus.
It runs on Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Windows XP and requires a PC with an Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Pentium 4 running at 1.3 gigahertz or higher, though a chip running at 2 Ghz or higher is recommended.
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