Intel's top Pentium chip, introduced in late 2000. The successor to the Pentium III, the Pentium 4 features the NetBurst micro-architecture (see NetBurst). All Pentium 4 chips are single core ...

When Pabst continued to press the issue, Intel took Tom's Hardware "out of the loop" and refused to brief the site on its forthcoming Pentium 4 technology. Essentially, Intel blackballed Tom's ...

By comparison, the 90nm Prescott-based Pentium 4 521 was set at the same frequency and had an 84w TDP while the upcoming 65nm Core 2 Duo had a maximum TDP of 65w when clocked at 3GHz.

This was around the time that Intel was chasing gigahertz with the Pentium 4 Netburst chip and AMD was having some early ...