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30-year-old Pentium FDIV bug tracked down in the silicon — Ken Shirriff takes the microscope to Intel's first-ever recall
The Pentium was made on an 800nm process, with the above die shot taken through stitched-together microscope photography. The die contains 3.1 million transistors, with transistor grids being ...
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Reverse-Engineering The Polynomial Constants In The Pentium’s FPU
In a recent blog post [Ken Shirriff] takes an up-close look at the FPU and associated ROMs in the Pentium die that enable its use of polynomials. Even with 3.1 million transistors, the Pentium die ...
CRN1y
Lessons Learned: Pentium Flaws Aid Intel In Sandy Bridge Chipset Recall
Intel is receiving mostly positive feedback for its handling of the Sandy Bridge chipset recall, and a big reason for that may be the chip maker's past missteps in dealing with high-profile design ...
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Intel retires basic Laminar RS1 cooler, switches to RM1 for Pentium and Celeron CPUs
TL;DR: Intel has discontinued its RS1 stock cooler, which was bundled with the entry-level Pentium G7400 and Celeron G6900 processors. The RS1 will not have a direct successor, instead the ...