AMD has led the 64-bit desktop processor field up to now with the Athlon 64 -- although there is, as yet, no shipping 64-bit Windows operating system, which is necessary to make the most of a 64-bit ...

The big picture: Microsoft's shiny new OS has had a mixed reception, not helped by the fact that users considering updating/trying out the OS on their relatively recent PCs were put off by a stringent ...

Intel today launched a new line Pentium 4 processers, the 600 series, as well the latest chip in its high-performance Extreme Edition line. Hi, I look after product development for CBS Interactive in ...

New operating systems always arrive with some interesting quirks, and when one gets released with as many restrictions as Windows 11, you know things are going to get interesting. Windows 11 was ...

Most would agree that Windows 11 has some super-strict hardware requirements that Microsoft has enforced. The base requirements seem pretty reasonable, but it's the additional need for technologies ...

With the launch of its 2-GHz Pentium 4 processor today, Intel Corp., as expected, cut prices on the rest of its Pentium 4 family, as well as many of its other processors. Intel also introduced a ...

With Intel officially forging forward in the desktop consumer space with Pentium 4, with the Prescott-2M update the most recent, there's also been a lively undercurrent of information, benchmarks and ...

Intel is acting to calm fears that technology in its Pentium 4 processors will allow hackers to steal passwords by reading 'footprints' in the cache. Hyperthreading, introduced in Intel's Pentium 4, ...