今天早些时候，AMD 工程师 Phil Park 在 Twitter 上发现了一条有趣的 PC 架构历史信息，这条信息来自英特尔前工程师 Robert Colwell 在一年前发布的Quora回答。这条信息表明，如果英特尔没有执意要推出 x64 版 Itanium 系列 CPU，那么英特尔本可以在 x86-64 领域击败 AMD。这个故事的历史背景和其中的评论非常有趣，尤其是考虑到当今的桌面 ...

Earlier today on Twitter, AMD engineer Phil Park identified a curious nugget of PC architectural history from, of all places, ...

All Pentium 4 chips are single core, while dual-core Pentium models such as Pentium D and Pentium Processor Extreme Editions omit the "4" designation. See Pentium. Available in both 32-bit and 64 ...

Intel had a solution ready to add 64-bit features to the "classic" 32-bit x86 ISA, but the company chose to push forward with ...

The first CPU to reach a clock speed of 4 GHz was the Pentium 4 570 released in November 2004 as part of Intel's NetBurst microarchitecture, but this milestone wasn't achieved out of the box.

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 ...