By 1994, Intel had managed to capture about 75% of the microprocessor market for personal computers. The company had also found its way into automobiles, industrial controls, telecommunications equipment, and supercomputers. The Intel x86 architecture had propelled the company to these immense heights, and they’d established a cadence of releases in that CPU line of roughly four years. The investment that both individuals and companies had made in hardware and software for the architecture was m...