A few years ago Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) introduced its K5 Microprocessor. At that time, if anyone was to name an underdog to the Intel dominated microprocessor market; Cyrix with its dirt-cheap 5 x 86 processor would have been the favorite. Intel had been the only processor that could handle day-to-day functions at reasonable speeds. The processors were unable to perform such simple tasks as word processing and calculations, gaming, and educational work.
The Pentium processor was introduced in 1994; no company could compete with Intel at this point. It took until 1997, for AMD to even be noticed, and then later in 1997 the AMD K6 series was introduced. When AMD’S K 6 was introduced to compete with the Pentium Processor, it fell
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