The new chip is intended to challenge the Intel Corporation's dominance of the microprocessor market.

Because of their blazing speeds, they pose a threat to standard microprocessors made by Intel, which leads the microprocessor market.

According to those who follow the microprocessor market, the P6 will be just as fast and innovative as the K5.

But that changed last week, with two new products that could put Texas Instruments in the microprocessor market in a big way.

They don't have a part of the microprocessor market.

"But Intel is in the microprocessor market, so it must be careful about what it does."

Still, worldwide, Intel dominates 80 percent of the microprocessor market and continues to set the industry standard in new technology.

It is an American company - Intel, of course - that rules the microprocessor market.

Intel presides over a shrinking high-margin portion of the microprocessor market.

The agreement is subject to approval by Federal antitrust authorities, who are already investigating Intel's near monopoly of the microprocessor market.