This year's Pentium III is up to 28 million transistors, which are down to 0.18 microns wide.
It showed a prototype PC here that sported a 1.5GHz processor, followed by the technology demonstration, in which a Pentium 4 was ratcheted up to 2002MHz, or slightly over 2GHz.
The 945G chipset running this thing only supports up to a Pentium D processor, so you're not going to get a lot of power no matter how well you spec the rest.
Until 1992, when Lexicon came up with the name Pentium for a computer chip made by Intel Corporation, microprocessors were identified by number.
Intel has had difficulty keeping up with demand for its higher speed Pentium IIIs, particularly its Coppermine processor, a 733 MHz Pentium III chip.
On the desktop front (shown after the jump), the PC Station BJ series sports a slim, compact form factor, an Intel Celeron D, Pentium 4, or Core 2 Duo E4300 depending on model, up to 1GB of DDR2 RAM, between 250GB and 320GB of HDD space, a dual-layer DVD burner, Windows Vista, and a number of matching displays between 17- and 22-inches.
ENGADGET: Sotec's intros PC Station BJ / BX desktops and WH5513P laptop
Intel's new Pentium 4 microprocessor sizzles at an average 110 watts, hot enough to whip up a batch of muffins--and slow a PC's advertised performance.
All the Celeron and Pentium models have two cores and two threads each, but the Core kicks it up to four threads with the help of Hyperthreading.
ENGADGET: Intel Ivy Bridge now available in budget-friendly silicon
To overcome the problem of backward-compatibility, modern x86 chips such as the Pentium are able to take x86-style instructions from old software and split them up into several smaller micro-operations which lend themselves better to performance-enhancing trickery.
Boot-up occurs fairly quickly, and you're up and running within the minute, with most applications performing adequately on a Pentium M CPU backed by 512MB of RAM.
ENGADGET: Hands-on with Vulcan's Flipstart handheld PC Hands-on
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