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'''Pentium''' is a semi-discontinued series of [[x86]] architecture-compatible [[microprocessor]]s produced by [[Intel]]. The [[Pentium (original)|original Pentium]] was first released on March 22, 1993. The name "Pentium" is originally derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] word ''[[wikt:pent-|pente]]'' (''πεντε''), meaning "five", a reference to the prior numeric naming convention of Intel's 80x86 processors (8086–80486), with the [[Latin]] ending ''[[-ium]]'' since the processor would otherwise have been named 80586 using that convention.
The later Pentiums were based on both the architecture used in [[Intel Atom|Atom]] and that of Core processors. In the case of Atom architectures, Pentiums were the highest performance implementations of the architecture. Pentium processors with Core architectures prior to 2017 were distinguished from the faster, higher-end i-series processors by lower [[clock rate]]s and disabling some features, such as [[hyper-threading]], [[Intel VT|virtualization]] and sometimes L3 [[CPU cache|cache]].
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