The Worst CPUs Ever Made

Processors are built by multi-billion-dollar corporations using some of the most cutting-edge technologies known to man. But even with all their expertise, investment, and know-how, sometimes these CPU makers drop the ball. Some CPUs have just been poor performers for the money or their generation, while others easily overheated or drew too much power.

Some CPUs were so bad that they set their companies back generations, taking years to recover.

But years on from their release and the fallout, we no longer need to feel let down, disappointed, or ripped off by these lame-duck processors. We can enjoy them for the catastrophic failures they were, and hope the companies involved learned a valuable lesson.

Here are some of the worst CPUs ever made.

Note: Plenty of people will bring up the Pentium FDIV bug here, but the reason we didn't include it is simple: Despite being an enormous marketing ...