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First published May 14, 1997. Intel finally went public on the radical new architecture required by the Pentium II processor last week. Banging the drum for the Dual Independent Bus (DIB) architecture ...

LAS VEGAS--Umax is quietly displaying a "thin-and-wide" notebook prototype of the VisualNote 500 series with a 266-MHz Pentium II processor and Windows 98, neither of which are officially shipping yet ...

The successor to the Pentium Pro from Intel. Pentium II refers to the CPU chip or the PC that uses it. Code-named Klamath, the Pentium II was a Pentium Pro with MMX multimedia instructions. Introduced ...

All Computers Inc. filed a patent lawsuit against Intel Corp. Thursday claiming that Intel’s Pentium II processor infringed upon a circuit design patented by All Computers. The lawsuit seeks over ...

Intel’s processor lineup used to be, in the words of one of our greatest working artists, all about the Pentiums. That became less true beginning in the mid-2000s, when the modern “Core” branding was ...

New, compact, mimimalist designs for sub-$1,000 personal computers are emerging from major manufacturers. Meanwhile, Intel has cut the price on its Pentium II processor to spur low-cost Pentium II PC ...

Man, today is a sad day... Intel is retiring the Celeron and Pentium CPU brands, where it's calling it an adjustment to product names moving into 2023 and beyond. Intel will drop the Celeron and ...

A Pentium II CPU chip or to a PC that uses it. The term is also used for non-Intel CPUs that are Pentium II compatible, such as the K6 from AMD and the 6x86MX from Cyrix. See P6 class and Pentium.