Today marks the return of competition in Windows compatible processors.
Competition is good.
It was designed to be compatible with the Socket 7 environment because Socket 7 is the industry's optimum-performance desktop PC design platform. More than 80 percent of the approximately 75 million desktop personal computers expected to ship in 1997 will employ the Socket 7 infrastructure. This speeds time to market and provides for more affordable high-performance systems. BIOS support is provided by leading third-party suppliers, including American Megatrends, Inc., Award Software, and Phoenix. Window Compatible by Design AMD, the world's second largest supplier of Windows compatible processors, has supplied nearly one hundred million x86 processors, including 50 million Windows compatible CPUs in the last five years.