Per a News article on Page # 9 of the October 1984 issue of Acorn User, the Plus 3 was originally destined to have used the Intel 8272 disk controller, ( and not 8271, which were in short supply at the time ).

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.

In commercial terms, the Athlon " Classic " was an enormous success — not just because of its own merits, but also because Intel endured a series of major production, design, and quality control issues at this time.

Cyrix used a PR rating ( Performance Rating ) to relate their performance to the Intel P5 Pentium ( pre-P55C ), because a 6x86 at a lower clock rate outperformed the higher-clocked P5 Pentium.

Therefore, despite being very fast clock by clock, the 6x86 and MII were forced to compete at the low-end of the market as AMD K6 and Intel P6 Pentium II were always ahead on clock speed.

On June 28, 1984 Compaq released the Compaq Deskpro, a 16-bit desktop computer using an Intel 8086 microprocessor running at 7. 14 MHz.

Starting in 1968, Ted Hoff and a team at Intel invented the first commercial microprocessor, which presaged the personal computer.

To learn more about the processors, he worked at Intel as a consultant on his days off.

In 1972, Intel launched the 8008, the first 8-bit microprocessor .< ref > using enhancement load PMOS logic ( demanding 14V, achieving TTL-compatibility by having V < sub > CC </ sub > at + 5V and V < sub > DD </ sub > at-9V )</ ref > It implemented an instruction set designed by Datapoint corporation with programmable CRT terminals in mind, that also proved to be fairly general purpose.

The device needed several additional ICs to produce a functional computer, in part due to its small 18-pin " memory-package ", which ruled out the use of a separate address bus ( Intel was primarily a DRAM manufacturer at the time ).

It was an attempt to draw attention from the less-delayed 16 and 32-bit processors of other manufacturers ( such as Motorola, Zilog, and National Semiconductor ) and at the same time to counter the threat from the Zilog Z80 ( designed by former Intel employees ), which became very successful.

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.

In May 2006, Intel announced that 80386 production would stop at the end of September 2007.

The 386 was for a time only available from Intel, since Andy Grove, Intel's CEO at the time, made the decision not to encourage other manufacturers to produce the processor as second sources.

Intel originally intended for the 80386 to debut at 16 MHz.

* Intel 80486SX images and descriptions at cpu-collection. de

In May 2006, Intel announced that production of the 186 would cease at the end of September 2007.

* Scan of the Intel 80186 data book at datasheetarchive. com

* Intel 80186 / 80188 images and descriptions at cpu-collection. de

The architecture originated at Hewlett-Packard ( HP ), and was later jointly developed by HP and Intel.

It was marketed as a product which could perform as well as its Intel Pentium II equivalent but at a significantly lower price.

At that time, the 32-bit Intel 80486 ran at 50 MHz and 50 MFlops.

Leopard supports both PowerPC-and Intel x86-based Macintosh computers ; support for the G3 processor was dropped and the G4 processor required a minimum clock rate of 867 MHz, and at least 512 MB of RAM to be installed.

Snow Leopard only supports machines with Intel CPUs, requires at least 1 GB of RAM, and drops default support for applications built for the PowerPC architecture ( Rosetta can be installed as an additional component to retain support for PowerPC-only applications ).

The first general purpose microprocessor, the Intel i8080, ran at 0. 64 MIPS.

AIX PS / 2, first released in 1989, ran on IBM PS / 2 personal computers with Intel 386 and compatible processors.

The AGP slot first appeared on x86 compatible system boards based on Socket 7 Intel P5 Pentium and Slot 1 P6 Pentium II processors.

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.

Since the introduction of the first commercially available microprocessor ( the Intel 4004 ) in 1970, and the first widely used microprocessor ( the Intel 8080 ) in 1974, this class of CPUs has almost completely overtaken all other central processing unit implementation methods.

The first highly ( or tightly ) pipelined x86 implementations, the 486 designs from Intel, AMD, Cyrix, and IBM, supported every instruction that their predecessors did, but achieved maximum efficiency only on a fairly simple x86 subset that was only a little more than a typical RISC instruction set ( i. e. without typical RISC load-store limitations ).

3Com shipped its first 10 Mbit / s Ethernet 3C100 transceiver in March 1981, and that year started selling adapters for PDP-11s and VAXes, as well as Multibus-based Intel and Sun Microsystems computers.

The Intel 4004 was a 4-bit processor released in 1971, but in 1973 the Intel 8080, an 8-bit processor, made the first personal computer, the Altair 8800, possible.

For example, Forth was the first resident software on the new Intel 8086 chip in 1978 and MacFORTH was the first resident development system for the first Apple Macintosh in 1984.

Being within an hours ' drive of Silicon Valley, Kildall heard about the first commercially available microprocessor, the Intel 4004.

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.

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.

The first company to design and manufacture a PC based on the Intel 80386 was Compaq.

The technology was developed by Italian physicist Federico Faggin in 1968, who later joined Intel in order to develop the very first Central Processing Unit ( CPU ) on one chip ( Intel 4004 ), for which he received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2010.

The first integrated circuit to implement the draft of what was to become IEEE 754-1985 was the Intel 8087.

HP and Intel initiated a large joint development effort with a goal of delivering the first product, Merced, in 1998.

In the late 1990s, under Project Monterey, IBM and the Santa Cruz Operation planned to integrate AIX and UnixWare into a single 32-bit / 64-bit multiplatform UNIX with particular emphasis on running on Intel IA-64 ( Itanium ) architecture CPUs.

In 1999, SGI announced it would overhaul its operations ; it planned to continue introducing new MIPS processors until 2002, but its server business would include Intel ’ s processor architectures as well.

Distinct ARM architecture implementations by licensees include Apple's A6, AppliedMicro's X-Gene, Qualcomm's Snapdragon and Krait, DEC's StrongARM, Marvell ( formerly Intel ) XScale, and Nvidia's planned Project Denver.

" ( emphasis original ), and similarly in 1992 regarding Apple's Mac 7. 0 ( code named " Star Trek ") which was planned to run on the Intel chip by calling it " the OS that boldly goes where everyone else has been ".

' Intel inside ' comes to flat panel TVs ( January 9, 2004 – No longer planned for development ) New Scientist

For a time the IBM RT / PC was planned to be a personal computer, with ROMP replacing the Intel 8088.