The first CPU to reach a clock speed of 4 GHz was the Pentium 4 570 released in November 2004 as part of Intel's NetBurst microarchitecture, but this milestone wasn't achieved out of the box.

To build the next generation of high-performance applications, we need to start from a point of hardware acceleration from the outset.

and processors used a 32-bit word size, AMD launched the Athlon XP 2000+ in an attempt to take down Intel's Northwood-based ...

Intel unveiled the design of its Tejas processor in early 2003 with the intention of launching it clocked at frequencies of 7GHz or more the following year (Jayhawk being its Xeon counterpart).

Later, the company offered to replace processors -- but for only ... to brief the site on its forthcoming Pentium 4 technology. Essentially, Intel blackballed Tom's Hardware for reporting what ...

Yonah/Merom put Intel back on the map of high-performance PCs and replaced the power-hungry Netburst microarchitecture that ...