A key element of his plan was the notion, then considered radical, of becoming the single source for successors to the popular 8086 microprocessor.

The Intel Corporation said it was not able to meet the demand for its popular 386 and 386SX microprocessors.

It served as a companion UART chip for the widely popular 6502 microprocessor.

In Britain, for example, the Inmos Corporation is working on a version of a popular microprocessor known as the Transputer.

Six of the models are powered by the Intel Corporation's popular 80286 microprocessor, while the seventh is based on Intel's more powerful 80386SX chip.

The Motorola 6809E was a very advanced processor, but was correspondingly more expensive than other more popular microprocessors.

"The entire worldwide electronics industry will benefit from competitive sources of supply of the world's most popular microprocessor."

The 486 chip, introduced in April 1989, will eventually replace Intel's 386 chip, which is the most popular microprocessor in the personal computer market.

First released in 1980, various models and variants of the series were among the most popular Soviet microprocessors and dominated the embedded systems and military applications of the 1980s.

The Zilog Z80 has long been a popular microprocessor in embedded systems and microcontroller cores, where it remains in widespread use today.