It has been an awful long time in the development, but V M Technologies, the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp, the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi, which has been having a rough time of it of late, has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp’s 80386, the first 80386 clone developed in Japan. Development began two years ago, but marketing was delayed because of bugs, which president Nishi says have now been completely dealt with. The chip went on display at the Microsoft Computer Show which opened on April 20 in Tokyo. Fujitsu Ltd, an investor in V M Technologies, will be handling fabrication of the new device.
