Intel has been making CPUs (Central Processing Units), other computer chips and components for many years now. Founded in 1968, Intel is one of the oldest and biggest computer companies in existence today with revenue exceeding $34 billion in 2004 and 78,000 employees. It's interesting that Intel has been around longer than I've been born, yet, computers have changed in so many ways since Intel was founded as well.

The CPU is the brains of the computer. We've come a long way from the building size computers of the 1950s. Today, my cell phone has more computing muscle than the first computer. Consumer computers were mostly toys (Commodore 64 was mostly used for games and had a whopping 64 KB of memory). Today, computers are sophisticated beasts running multi-GHz frequencies with multi-gigabyte RAM the norm.

To be honest, I've always favored Intel CPUs until very recently. Last year Intel released the LGA-775 Socket along with a host of new technologies. Unfortunately, the first impression of the fastest CPU of the time (3.6 GHz Pentium 4 Prescott) was that of a extremely hot running processor. Today Intel is releasing a new family of products, the 6xx series and the 3.73 GHz Extreme Edition.