eWEEK 30: Intel’s 386 chip brought 32-bit computing to the x86 architecture while the 486 chip brought improved performance, enabling Windows to handle heftier enterprise applications.

The venerable Intel 486 was released in 1989 as the successor to the extremely popular Intel 386. It was the minimum recommended processor for Windows 98. (Surprisingly, the Windows 95 minimum was ...

Ah yes, there had been 486 mainboards with both an on-board 386 (say am386DX-40) and a free 486 socket. They were affordable complete systems with an upgrade path.

Chip wars. Intel and Motorola have competed chip for chip to power personal computers. 1972: Intel introduces the 8-bit 8008, a 3,500-transistor microprocessor that becomes the first PC chip.

Intel 386. With PC gaming starting to take hold, Intel's 386 arrived not a moment too soon. ... For gamers, the 486 picked up where the 386 left off, ...

Despite three high profile efforts, Intel's attempts to replace the x86 have gone down in flames. In the process, x86 only grew stronger. Here's how. It’s rare that technology can last multiple ...

Beginning with Intel’s 80386 in 1985, Intel stopped giving AMD access to its designs. AMD had to forge its own way, soon producing 386 and later 486 CPUs that were essentially reverse-engineered ...

Linux got its start on a 386 processor, but 21-years later, the Linux kernel developers have decided its time to say good-bye to the venerable Intel processor in its next major Linux kernel ...

Get in the bin: For the first time since 2012, some older CPU generations are being chopped Kernel 6.15 is taking shape and it looks like it will eliminate support for Intel's 486 chip and its ...

Sources close to Intel back up a report that Intel may try to move away from describing its chips as 10nm, 7nm, ... they were just as fast as the 386 and 486 chips Intel marketed at the time.

Debian Linux discontinued 386 support in 2005 and completely removed it in 2007. The Linux kernel followed suit in 2012, despite Linux’s original development on 386 and 486 machines.