Intel’s last Pentium-branded product launches happened mid last year, with the “Presler” core based Pentium-D processors hitting the market at speeds in excess of 3.0 GHz.

Dual-Core Chips Help Processors Share Load. By Mike Musgrove. June 4, 2005 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. With two new families of processors introduced by rival chipmakers Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and ...

The Pentium D will be the second dual-core processor that Intel brings to market. Intel’s first dual-core chip, the Pentium Extreme Edition 840, is already shipping in volume to hardware makers ...

The arrival of dual-core processors is set to massively reduce the cost of high-powered Windows HDV editing PCs. South-coast-based DVC (Digital Video Computing) is one of the first UK specialist ...

by Rob Williams on June 5, 2006 in Processors. If you are looking to upgrade to a dual core rig, but want to do it cheaply, then Intels 8** series may be for you. We are taking a look at the 820 D, a ...

The company’s Pentium D processors consist of two Pentium 4 cores placed closely together on a single silicon die. That design creates some problems in that dual-core processors must have ...

Intel's first dual core 64-bit (Intel 64) Pentium CPU with Hyper-Threading. The first model, the Extreme Edition 840, was introduced in 2005 with a clock rate of 3.2 GHz.

To put that in perspective, this is a low-end dual-core Pentium processor that costs just $64 (around £47, AU$89), and normally ticks along at 3.1GHz, having its speed almost doubled with an ...

While Intel technically beat rival AMD to the punch on Monday with its dual-core offering consisting of the 3.2-GHz Pentium Extreme Edition 840 and the 955X Express chipset, these processors are ...

Intel ships the Pentium E2140 with a standard Socket-775 heatsink/fan cooling unit which looks identical to the Core 2 Duo cooling units we’ve seen in the past. However, since these processors ...

The company’s Pentium D processors consist of two Pentium 4 cores placed closely together on a single silicon die. That design creates some problems in that dual-core processors must have ...