In a way, the PC was unique where, as I said, because of its architecture and because the microprocessor was such a dominant part of the whole architecture, it was actually quite easy for Intel to dominate.

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Meanwhile NEC was due to outline details of a superscalar microprocessor architecture with advanced DSP capabilities, Turley said.

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You had Intel that established itself in the one true value-added portion of that architecture -- the microprocessor.

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The formerly cordial relationship between the two soured when Oracle entered the hardware business by buying Sun Microsystems, which brought along its SPARC microprocessor architecture as part of the dowry.

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In addition to a new microprocessor architecture, a clock speed of 1.5 GHz is promised.

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The VAX remains the single most influential computer of all time--not just because of its pre-eminence among minis in the 1970s and 1980s, but because Ted Hoff so admired it that he used its architecture as the basis of the Intel 4004, the world's first microprocessor.

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He means that arm doesn't risk a lot of capital to fabricate chips, preferring instead to license its microprocessor architecture to 35 semiconductor partners.

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Qualcomm, NVIDIA, AMD, and even ARM Holdings (which developed the architecture used by Apple in its iPhones and iPads), are a step ahead of Intel and its Atom microprocessor.

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