With 2 new chips, the gigahrtz decade begins

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Advanced Micro Devices has come out with a personal computer microprocessor with a speed of 1 gigahertz. The Athlon chip will be used in PCs made by Compaq and Gateway. Intel quickly followed suit with its Pentium III, which will be used in computers made by I.B.M., Hewlett-Packard, Dell and other companies.

United States, Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing, Microprocessor Chips, Statistics, Advanced Micro Devices Athlon (Microprocessor), Intel Pentium III (Microprocessor)

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What new chip foretells for Intel

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Intel Corp introduces a 50 MHz version of its 80486DX microprocessor during the week of Jun 24, 1991. This 50 MHz model of the 80486 is smaller than, and as much as 50 percent faster than, the 33 MHz 80486DX, which was introduced in May 1990. The price of the 33 MHz version was $1,056 when it was introduced, and the price of the 50 MHz version is $665. The 33 MHz version now costs $445. Compaq Computer's Deskpro 486/50L, which will be the company's most powerful desktop system, is being designed around the new chip. The 486/50L should be in the $11,299 to $13,999 price range, depending on the size of the hard drive that is included. The 486/50L is expected to be available in 4th qtr 1991. Speed can be a drawback for a 50 MHz chip: the chip might be too fast for the rest of the components in a system. Therefore, Intel has also introduced a 256Kbyte external cache module to work with its 80486DX. Intel is already developing what probably will emerge as an 80586.

Electronic computers, Computer industry, Product development, Microcomputers, INTC, Technological forecasting, column, New Product, Microcomputer, Future of Computing, Intel 80486 (Microprocessor)

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To Pentium or not to Pentium? The question looms

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Intel Corp's Pentium microprocessor is the most powerful and most complex chip ever built to run DOS, Windows, OS/2, Unix and Windows NT operating systems. It has more than three million transistors, built-in data turbochargers and is capable of handling math functions, without encroaching on the main processor, with its floating point unit circuitry. The Pentium offers a peak performance of 112 million instructions per second (MIPS); in contrast, the Intel 486DX2-66, the company's top-of-the-line before the Pentium, has a peak performance of about 54 MIPS. With its performance capabilities, the Pentium will be able to handle voice and handwriting recognition, improved videoconferencing, increased networking performance, high-performance graphics and virtual reality. The first systems to use the Pentium will be available by summer 1993.

Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Column, End users, User Need, Intel Pentium (Microprocessor)

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