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| June 24, 1996 | Hatlestad, Luc | COPYRIGHT 2003 InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

IBM this month joined fellow Intel Pentium competitors AMD Research Inc. and Cyrix Corp. in delivering its own version of the 6x86 desktop microprocessor.

The chip's P-rating of P200 means it delivers performance the same as, or exceeding, Intel Corp.'s 200-MHz Pentium chip, according to MicroDesign Resources Inc., in Mountain View, Calif. (See "200-MHz Pentium gets lukewarm reaction," June 10, page 10.)

The P-rating is a set of tests developed by MicroDesign in cooperation with Intel's competitors. The tests are popular with corporate buyers because they compare each company's chip to a corresponding Pentium chip. But the IBM 6x86's P200 rating does not translate…

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