The Pentium 4 featured a 64-bit architecture.
The Pentium 4 was a processor manufactured by Intel which featured two processor cores, increased efficiency, improved bandwidth capabilities and better virus protection. The Pentium 4 was discontinued in 2006 with Intel's introduction of the Core 2 Duo processor.
Invention
The Intel Pentium 4 Processor was originally released in 2000 to increase processing speeds after Intel discovered that the Pentium 3 model could not exceed 1.2 GHz. However, the original Pentium 4 could only reach a maximum speed of 1.5 GHz. This meant that Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Intel's competitor, could easily beat the company in sales.
Northwood Revision
Intel went back to work to revise the Pentium 4. It released the Northwood Revision of the product in 2002, which could reach much higher speeds of about 2.2 GHz. Eventually, Intel increased the processing speed to more than 3 GHz. Intel was now ahead of AMD in the speed competition.
Extreme Edition
In 2003, Intel was forced to come up with something more impressive for its Pentium 4 processors because AMD released the Athlon 64. Intel began manufacturing the Extreme Edition for avid video gamers. This processor had 3.46 GHz speeds and added 2 MB to the cache.
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