2000
Intel launches the Pentium 4, introducing its NetBurst microarchitecture
The Pentium 4 was built around Intel's new NetBurst design, which prioritized very high clock speeds through a deep instruction pipeline. It became Intel's mainstream desktop processor line for most of the 2000s, before thermal and efficiency limits eventually pushed Intel back toward the design philosophy that led to Core 2.
Source: Intel Newsroom archive
