In the late 1970s and early 1980s General Instrument, like nearly every microelectronics manufacturer, was rolling out their own series of microprocessors and support chips in hopes of gaining a share of the then-new and rapidly exploding market for increasingly sophisticated consumer and industrial electronics.
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Aside from its usual business allies _ makers of motherboards, support chips, graphics boards and computer hardware _ AMD also has had to enlist support from a wide variety of software makers to create programs that work well with the new 64-bit instructions on its chip.
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One of the peripheral and support chips introduced for G . I .'s microprocessors was the Speak & Spell ) had already captured the public's fascination, it didn't take long for someone at Mattel Electronics to get the idea that a speech-synthesis module might be an interesting add-on for the console.
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Some PC companies, including IBM and Micronpc, have switched to support chips from an Intel competitor that don't support the new type of memory, which is known as Rambus or RDRAM . Other companies will use other Intel chip sets, but these don't offer all the features the delayed chips were supposed to.
