The Pentium processor's 18th birthday

We chart the ups and downs of Intel's best-loved processor

NetBurst was abandoned in favour of the older P6 architecture for the Pentium M, which was a mobile processor released concurrently with the Pentium 4. It was extremely power-efficient, and efficient per clock cycle — a huge advantage over desktop-based processors when it came to mobile computing.

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