Manufacturer of the microprocessors that form the basis of the IBM PC range and its clones. Recent microprocessors are the 80386 and 80486 (the basis of machines referred to as 386 and 486 PCs), and the Pentium, released in 1993.
Details of the P6 microprocessor were released Feb 1995. It can execute twice as many instructions (17 million per second) in a given time as the Pentium chip it is to replace, as it also analyses software programs to identify the most efficient way of running them.
In 1994 the company held a 90% share of the the global microprocessor market, and, together with Microsoft, supplied operating systems and computer chips for almost 85% of the world's personal computers.

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