Games that take advantage of the next-generation chips will begin appearing this fall.

He said the company did not plan to make a clone of Intel's Pentium chip, but would develop a compatible, next-generation chip of its own.

Unfortunately Aureal had gone into bankruptcy and was dissolved so their next-generation chips never saw the light of day.

That is the wattage generated by a typical high-performance microprocessor these days, and next-generation chips are expected to put out 150 to 200 watts.

Its megabit chips, and all next-generation chips, will soon be produced on oversized 8-inch silicon wafers, rather than the 5-inch wafers that are the standard.

Intel's staying busy as well, with its new Skulltrail platform expected later this year, as well as next-generation chips with an integrated memory controller.

Toshiba, for instance, plans to spend 350 billion yen ($2.9 billion) over the next four years to expand the production of next-generation chips.

So Intel's next-generation chips will have this so-called "VT" technology which is their equivalent.

CNSE is the site of "one of the world's most advanced cleanrooms for making prototypes of next-generation chips".

Advanced Micro has been developing its next-generation 586 chip, named K5, to compete with the Pentium but does not expect it to be available until next summer.