Texas Instruments' highly automated factory will focus on advanced processors and custom chips designed for specific customers or uses.

Processors operate up to 1.2 GHz at 1.3 V which is believed to be the highest clock rate fabricated processor designed in any university.

Cray currently makes vector supercomputers, which are based on a small number of processors designed from custom hardware.

The problem is particularly acute on processors designed with pipelining (since 1990) or with out-of-order execution.

That hasn't stopped Intel from launching a new family of processors designed for small and cheap laptops.

Each processor, designed with component technology supplied by I.B.M., will fit on an integrated-circuit card about the size of an envelope.

It is a versatile processor designed for mobile devices and other low power electronics.

The 8106 was to have been the principal processor in the 8000 line, designed to bracket the performance of the IBM 7090 system.

MMIX, another processor designed by a professor to help students learn.

The issues in the end, he said, came down to speed and the absence of a chip that consumed less electricity than traditional processors designed for PC's.