AMD unveils fast chip to challenge Intel

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AMD is introducing its K6 microprocessor, which offers speeds close to those of Intel's Pentium II for a price at least 25% less than those of the semiconductor giant. AMD is posing the first real challenge to Intel since the 1980s. In 1997, 84% of all computers are based on Intel chips. Intel will most likely not stumble in its path to the world's highest profitability, but AMD could stand to make a fortune if the K6 is successful, and consumers will benefit if the chip makers begin a price war. AMD could reach revenues of $2.8 billion in 1997 and $4.4 billion in 1998. As of Apr 1997 its stocks are at an all-time high. AMD's pivotal 1995 acquisition of unknown chip maker Nexgen, just after $1 billion in losses with the K5 chip, brought it a devoted design team, including Intel veteran Vinod Dham, a developer of the Pentium chip. AMD's new chip is 20% smaller than the Pentium II, and thus is significantly less expensive to manufacture.

Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing, Microprocessor Chips, Computer hardware, Hardware product introduction, AMD K6 (Microprocessor), American Micro Devices Inc.

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Intel to report it is shipping its newest chip

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Intel Corp is expected to announce that it has begun shipping the company's powerful new Pentium microprocessor. Reportedly, the list prices will be relatively low for new chips: as little as $850 each in 1,000-piece lots for the 60-MHz version, and $995 apiece for the 66-MHz version. The first computers based on the Pentium, expected to debut in May 1993, will list for as little as $4,500, or about half the list price of the first Intel 486-based machines, which debuted in 1989. A typical mail-order 486 today sells for about $3,000. Low-cost Pentium-based machines will cause a new round of price cuts among microcomputer makers and hasten the acceptance of the Pentium as a new standard. Intel has already begun work on the Pentium's successor, the P-6.

Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Intel Corp., INTC, Product Introduction, Low Cost, Pricing Policy, Intel Pentium (Microprocessor)

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