Intel introduced AGP support with the i440LX Slot 1 chipset on August 26, 1997, and a flood of products followed from all the major system board vendors.

The first Socket 7 chipsets to support AGP were the VIA Apollo VP3, SiS 5591 / 5592, and the ALI Aladdin V. Intel never released an AGP-equipped Socket 7 chipset.

Current ccNUMA systems are multiprocessor systems based on the AMD Opteron, which can be implemented without external logic, and Intel Itanium, which requires the chipset to support NUMA.

Both CPU families share a common chipset ; the interconnection is called Intel Quick Path Interconnect ( QPI ).

The Japanese company Busicom had designed their own special purpose LSI chipset for use in their Busicom 141-PF calculator with integrated printer and commissioned Intel to develop it for production.

On 24 July 2006, The Inquirer wrote that, in response to AMD's announced intent to purchase ATI, " ATI had its chipset license pulled, or at least not renewed by Intel.

On 23 August 2006, ATI showed its chipset roadmap to motherboard vendors which showed that next-generation chipsets for the Intel platform are cancelled.

Modern low-end to mid-range motherboards often include a graphics chipset manufactured by the developer of the northbridge ( e. g. an AMD chipset with Radeon graphics or an Intel chipset with Intel graphics ) on the motherboard.

Confusingly, the 860 number has since been re-used for a motherboard control chipset for Intel Xeon ( high-end Pentium ) systems.

Intel made a successful major push into the motherboard and chipset markets — becoming the largest motherboard manufacturer in the world and, at one stage, almost the only chipset manufacturer — but badly fumbled its attempt to move into the graphics chip market, and ( from 1991 ) faced sharp competition in its core CPU territory from AMD, Cyrix, VIA and Transmeta.

The Intel 440FX chipset explicitly supported both Pentium Pro and Pentium II processors, but the Intel 440BX and later Slot 1 chipsets did not explicitly support the Pentium Pro, so the Socket 8 slockets did not see wide use.

Front-side buses usually connect the CPU and the rest of the hardware via a chipset, which Intel implemented as a northbridge and a southbridge.

From right, clockwise: Intel PRO / Wireless network adapter, Intel mobile processor, Intel mobile southbridge ( computing ) | southbridge chipset, and Intel mobile northbridge ( computing ) | northbridge chipset.

* The Intel versions of Mac OS X from versions 10. 4 ( Tiger ) to 10. 6 ( Snow Leopard ) have Rosetta, a binary translation program that allows applications meant for use on PowerPC Macs to run on Apple systems that use Intel processors.

These architectures range from the Intel / AMD 32-bit / 64-bit architectures commonly found in personal computers to the ARM architecture commonly found in embedded systems and the IBM eServer zSeries mainframes.

: The best known family of operating systems named " DOS " is that running on IBM PCs type hardware using Intel x86 CPUs or their compatible cousins from other makers.

The perennial debates between users of competing operating systems such as Windows, Mac OS, or the GNU / Linux operating system, users of Intel and AMD processors, and users of the Wii, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 video game systems, often escalate into seemingly unending " flamewars ", called also software wars.

Intel lent him systems using the 8008 and 8080 processors, and in 1973, he developed the first high-level programming language for microprocessors, called PL / M.

* Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, released on 25 April 2005 for home and workstation systems utilizing 64-bit processors based on the x86-64 instruction set developed by AMD as AMD64 ; Intel calls their version Intel 64

The Intel 80C88. The 8088 was targeted at economical systems by allowing the use of an 8-bit data path and 8-bit support and peripheral chips ; complex circuit boards were still fairly cumbersome and expensive when it was released.

Although it had long been obsolete as a personal computer CPU, Intel and others had continued making the chip for embedded systems.

Intel markets the processors for enterprise servers and high-performance computing systems.

HP believed that it was no longer cost-effective for individual enterprise systems companies such as itself to develop proprietary microprocessors, so it partnered with Intel in 1994 to develop the IA-64 architecture, derived from EPIC.

Intel was willing to undertake a very large development effort on IA-64 in the expectation that the resulting microprocessor would be used by the majority of enterprise systems manufacturers.

Intel repositioned Itanium to focus on high-end business and HPC computing, attempting to duplicate x86's successful " horizontal " market ( i. e., single architecture, multiple systems vendors ).

Recognizing that the lack of software could be a serious problem for the future, Intel made thousands of these early systems available to independent software vendors ( ISVs ) to stimulate development.

In April 2008, SGI re-entered the visualization market with the SGI Virtu range of visualization servers and workstations, which were re-badged systems from BOXX Technologies based on Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron processors and Nvidia Quadro graphics chipsets, running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or Windows Compute Cluster Server.

In its literature and product version names, Microsoft and Sun refer to AMD64 / Intel 64 collectively as x64 in the Windows and Solaris operating systems respectively.

It ran on PC-compatible computer systems based on the Intel 80386 microprocessor.

Variants of OSF / 1 AD were used on several such systems, including the Intel Paragon XP / S and ASCI Red, Convex Exemplar SPP-1200 ( as SPP-UX ) and the Hitachi SR2201 ( as HI-UX MPP ).

The last version, 3. 3, was released in early 1995, by which time it ran not only on the Motorola 68000 family processors used in NeXT computers, but also Intel x86, Sun SPARC, and HP PA-RISC-based systems.

NeXT's implementation was called OPENSTEP for Mach and its first release ( 4. 0 ) superseded Nextstep 3. 3 on NeXT, Sun and Intel IA-32 systems.

Examples of ccNUMA enabled chipsets are the SGI Shub ( Super hub ), the Intel E8870, the HP sx2000 ( used in the Integrity and Superdome servers ), and those found in recent NEC Itanium-based systems.

Based on Intel Pentium-class microprocessors, the term chipset often refers to a specific pair of chips on the motherboard: the northbridge and the southbridge.

Traditionally, in both AMD and Intel variations, the processor is coupled with two other integrated circuits: the northbridge, which is responsible for communications with high-speed devices, such as memory and graphics cards ; and the southbridge, which implements comparatively low speed peripherals, such as USB, parallel and serial communications.

In some newer Intel configurations, the northbridge and southbridge have been consolidated into a single IC, the " Platform Controller Hub " ( PCH ), effectively an enhanced southbridge.

On early APIC systems with only 16 IRQs or with only Intel 8259 interrupt controllers, PCI interrupt lines were routed to the 16 IRQs using a PIR integrated into the southbridge.

Because the WD1770 is capable of single density mode and uses the same IBM360 derived floppy disc format as the Intel 8271 found in the BBC Micro, it was also possible to run a DFS filing system with an alternate ROM, such as the P. R. E. S AP4 interface.

One limitation ( also afflicting the Intel Pentium III ) is that SRAM cache designs at the time were incapable of keeping up with the Athlon's clock scalability, due both to manufacturing limitations of the cache chips and the difficulty of routing electrical connections to the cache chips themselves.

Advanced power management ( APM ) is an API developed by Intel and Microsoft and released in 1992 which enables an operating system running an IBM-compatible personal computer to work with the BIOS ( part of the computer's firmware ) to achieve power management.

It is available on Linux and BSD for Intel x86 ; Linux for Alpha ; Mac OS X for Intel x86 and PowerPC ; and Solaris, IRIX, and HP-UX on their native platforms.

With regard to internal caches, it has a 16-kB primary cache and is socket-compatible with the Intel P54C Pentium.

The 6x86 and 6x86L weren't completely compatible with the Intel P5 Pentium instruction set and is not multi-processor capable.

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is not to be confused with Windows XP 64-bit Edition, as the latter was designed for Intel Itanium processors.

Industry Standard Architecture ( ISA ) is a computer bus standard for IBM PC compatible computers introduced with the IBM Personal Computer to support its Intel 8088 microprocessor's 8-bit external data bus and extended to 16 bits for the IBM Personal Computer / AT's Intel 80286 processor.

IA-32 ( Intel Architecture, 32-bit ), also known as x86-32, i386 or x86, is the CISC instruction-set architecture of Intel's most commercially successful microprocessors, and was first implemented in the Intel 80386 as a 32-bit extension of x86 architecture.

Intel Corporation is the inventor and the biggest supplier of IA-32 processors.

The 8086 ( also called iAPX 86 ) is a 16-bit microprocessor chip designed by Intel between early 1976 and mid-1978, when it was released.

The Intel 8088, released in 1979, was a slightly modified chip with an external 8-bit data bus ( allowing the use of cheaper and fewer supporting logic chips ), and is notable as the processor used in the original IBM PC.

The legacy of the 8086 is enduring in the basic instruction set of today's personal computers and servers ; the 8086 also lent its last two digits to later extended versions of the design, such as the Intel 286 and the Intel 386, all of which eventually became known as the x86 family.

( Another reference is that the PCI Vendor ID for Intel devices is 8086 < sub > h </ sub >.

The instruction set of the i486 is very similar to its predecessor, the Intel 80386, with the addition of only a few extra instructions, such as CMPXCHG which executes the compare-and-swap atomic operation and the XADD which executes the fetch-and-add atomic operation returning the original value, unlike the ADD instruction that only returned some flags.

The Intel 80186 is a microprocessor and microcontroller introduced in 1982.

Itanium ( ) is a family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors that implement the Intel Itanium architecture ( formerly called IA-64 ).

The Intel APIC Architecture is well known for producing a huge amount of interrupt latency jitter.