Our creative director Aurich Lawson is building a PC to power a custom arcade cabinet, and he was having trouble picking a processor. Not because he didn’t know what he needed, but because he was ...

Like that Simpsons episode where the director's commentary for The Postman is just Kevin Costner repeatedly apologizing into his microphone, there needs to be a monument to the Intel Pentium 4 ...

After 15 years, Intel is finally paying out as part of a class action lawsuit that alleged the company made up performance benchmarks for its Pentium 4 processor. Which came out in November 2000. You ...

Another month passes and another couple of processors are released by either Intel or AMD. The last two months have been rather busy on the CPU front. Both rivals launched their own dual-core, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In 1994, Intel faced a public relations crisis over an elusive mathematics glitch that affected the accuracy of calculations made by its popular Pentium computer chips. After insisting ...

It may well be that this holiday season’s lump of coal, the Pentium computer chip, will err only once every 27,000 years or will create mathematical headaches solely for those who like their numbers ...

In 1994, Andrew S. Grove was facing one of the most challenging times in his life as chairman and chief executive of Intel Corp., and in his personal life. Intel’s troubles began when a flaw turned up ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Normally when a computer executive gets up on a stage to unveil some small computer, he pulls it out of his jacket pocket to reveal ...

Intel recalled the Pentium P5 chip in 1995 that produced errors for certain calculations. The recalled chips were turned into keychains for Intel employees. The keychains had an inscription from ...