Available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions with and without Hyper-Threading, the Pentium 4 was introduced at the end of 2000 with 1.4 and 1.5 GHz clock rates. Speed later reached 3.8 GHz ...

A bug associated with the Pentium 4 that delayed Intel's introduction of the chip by a month is still around, but the potential for damage appears to be relatively slight.

Intel will release a 1.7GHz Pentium 4 processor and with it a scorched-earth approach to the PC market. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and ...

Round Rock, Texas-based Dell Computer is shipping the Precision Workstation 330 with Pentium 4 processors at 1.4GHz and 1.5GHz. Pricing begins at $1,999, according to a Dell release.

The Pentium 4 routes information around the computer at three times the speed of the Pentium III. It includes a "Rapid Execution Engine," which crunches numbers like an abacus operator on caffeine.

Intel Corp. will start selling a smaller, faster version of its Pentium 4 computer processor this week, as the world's biggest chip maker rolls out a new manufacturing process.