In a bet-the-company gamble, San Jose, California-based Chips & Technologies Inc next Monday unveils its long-awaited entry into the Intel Corp iAPX-86-compatible microprocessor market. The New York Times expects the company to come out with an array of products, including 80386- and 80386SX-compatible parts that are pin-compatible with Intel’s but about 10% faster; versions of the same cores with on-chip cache, which would make machines designed around them 30% to 50% faster that using the conventional parts, and a highly-integrated version of the 8086 with much of the support logic on-chip, for use in laptop and notebook boxes.
