The fastest desktop processor known to man! Looking for an edge in the evolving Internet Economy? The Pentium® 4 processor provides a significant competitive advantage to business users in our e-Business world. Available at speeds up to 1.50 GHz, Intel's highest performance processor offers the power to use and take advantage of emerging e-Business tools like 3D collaboration and data visualization applications.

Based on the all-new Intel® NetBurst™ micro-architecture, the Pentium 4 processor delivers breakthrough performance to handle next generation multi-tasking environments and unleashes the richness of the visual Internet. The Intel NetBurst micro-architecture allows the Pentium 4 processor to deliver this next-generation performance so it can be fully experienced and appreciated by the user, rather than focusing on simply speeding up applications such as word and spreadsheet processing.

The Intel NetBurst micro-architecture is the latest, true micro-architectural generation from Intel that implements the IA-32 architecture. The introduction of the Pentium 4 processor signifies a complete processor re-design that delivers new technologies and capabilities while advancing many of the innovative features introduced on prior Intel® micro-architectural generations.

Key Features

With the Pentium 4 processor, Intel delivers revolutionary change. Architectural innovations in the new design include the following features:

• Hyper pipelined technology to deliver significantly higher performance and frequency for scalability

• Rapid Execution Engine to execute integer instructions at lightning speed
• The technology to deliver an effective 400 MHz system bus
• Execution Trace Cache to deliver more instruction bandwidth to the core and make more efficient use of the cache storage.

Need more? The Pentium 4 processor also significantly builds upon the many of the features that the Pentium® III processor delivered:

• Faster processor clock speeds of up to 1.50 GHz

• 144 new SIMD instructions over Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) and MMX™ technologies to make a complete SIMD instruction set
• Advanced Dynamic Execution to deliver an enhanced branch prediction capability and a more efficient means to processing data
• Advanced Transfer Cache to provide a much higher data throughput channel between the Level 2 cache and the processor core
• Enhanced floating point and multimedia delivers a high bandwidth path into the floating point and multimedia units to keep executing.