Alpha has been the fastest chip in the industry since it was introduced in 1994, but sales, especially this year, have been disappointing.

Got four of the fastest chips made in this thing-Harold did most of the computer design.

It fills its own with some of the world's fastest chips, also made by Fujitsu.

They run more than twice as fast as today's fastest chips, and even faster models are waiting in the wings, a few years ahead.

Consumers, the analysts say, see no pressing need for computers with the latest, fastest chips.

It does that using the fastest chips available.

Intel's fastest 486-class chip, the 486 DX2/66, is a 32-bit chip, as was its predecessor, the 386.

Until now, the fastest 80386 chips ran at 25 megahertz.

Those rivals are putting unaccustomed price pressure on Intel, which has traditionally dominated the market for the fastest and most sophisticated chips.

And the chip will probably have a basic clock speed of almost 1,000 megahertz - more than twice the raw performance of today's fastest chips.