Advanced Micro plans to preview its 486 chip clone

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Advanced Micro Devices Inc will soon begin public previews of its clone of Intel Corp's popular 80486 microprocessor. A legal battle could still keep AMD's clone off the market, but company officials say they are technically capable of shipping the chip by the end of 1992. AMD marketing official Subodh Toprani declines to discuss specific features of the clone other than to say that AMD can match the performance of any 486 chip on the market. In Oct 1992, a judge upheld an earlier decision by a jury that forbade AMD from using certain Intel software in an older chip, called the 287. However, the judge left open the possibility that AMD could use Intel software, called microcode, in other clones. If a judge rules against AMD, the company will have to write its own microcode. That would push back the ship date of the 486 clone to mid-1993.

Design and construction, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., AMD, Compatibility (Computers), Compatible Hardware, Product Development, Court Cases, Intel 80486 (Microprocessor)

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Intel delays the delivery of key chip

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Intel announced that it is delaying delivery of its Merced microprocessor from the second half of 1999 to mid-2000. Merced is a highly-anticipated chip designed to power the most powerful machines used for corporate transaction-processing and scientific research. Not only does the move affect Intel's plans to widen its industry dominance, it also impacts HP and dozens of computer and software companies that have anticipated the chip. Some analysts, meanwhile, had projected Merced to help Intel combat setbacks in profit and revenue growth from the shift toward inexpensive chips. Merced, the most important Silicon Valley-designed chip since Intel's Pentium in 1993, features a new IA-64 architecture that processes 64 bits of data and handles multiple tasks simultaneously. By comparison, current chips handle 32 bits of data at a time.

Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing, Microprocessor Chips, Hardware product development, Computer hardware, Intel Corp., INTC, Product introduction delays, Product delay, Intel Merced (Microprocessor)

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