The “x3 circuit”, a nontrivial portion of the Pentium processor, is dedicated to multiplying ... fewer operations than doing so in base-2 (binary). Instead of handling each bit separately ...

(Currently, Intel uses Pentium 4 and Pentium D NetBurst ... fingers and hope that AMD releases an M2-based FX CPU toward the end of the year. 2. For those in a hurry... If you just can't wait ...

If the system becomes unstable you may have to bump up the processor voltage (which involves another piece of wire). In the article, Dan Zhang is able to take a 1.8GHz Pentium M to 2.4GHz.

Following is a brief history of PC CPUs, starting with the most current. Starting in 1994, AMD introduced its first Pentium-compatible CPU, the K5. It was followed by the K6 and then the Athlon ...