Intel. Processors. In the past the two have meant one in the same. With the onslaught of competition and the market driving to produce more, better, and faster, Intel has pumped out successive generations of processors. Most recently, the market has become extremely heated with Intel and AMD firing CPUs at each other and VIA and Transmeta moving into the low-end market to further add to the competition. Intel´s new breed or processing muscle lies in their newly released Pentium 4.