The long-running legal battle started with the Commission leveling the fine in 2009 after concluding that Intel crossed antitrust lines in the early aughts, when the Pentium 4 faced off against ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...