A historical overview of what followed the Intel 486 CPU era. Intel transitioned to the Pentium brand in 1993 to avoid trademark issues with numeric names, while AMD, Cyrix, NexGen, IDT, and others produced their own 486 successors and Pentium-class competitors. AMD reverse-engineered the 386 and 486 with legal battles, while
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Intel’s Pentium CPUsWhy brand name was important after the 486Why so many companies made 486s and Intel wanted them to stopNon-Intel Pentium successors to the 486AMD going it alone against IntelSort: