What Is a Pentium 4 Processor Chip?
Intel’s Pentium 4 processor was one of its most radical processor designs. This resulted in impressive performance, but inefficient power usage and excessive heat generation eventually killed the design.HistoryIntel’s Pentium 4 processors first arrived in 2000. They directly followed the Pentium 3. Variants of the Pentium 4 processor were sold until 2008.ArchitectureThe Pentium 4 used Intel’s brand new “Netburst” architecture. This emphasized the rapid execution of single threads of information by focusing on extremely high clock speeds. Intel had planned processors with speeds of 10 gigahertz, but only 3.8 gigahertz was achieved. Even so, the 3.8 gigahertz Pentium 4 holds the record for highest clock speed on a consumer processor.PerformanceWhile the Pentium 4 processors had a high clock speed, they were inefficient and slower than Athlon processors with similar clock speeds. Pentium 4 processors were also usually slower than Athlon processors of similar price.CompatibilityThe first P
