Intel Corp plans to bring many of the power-saving features now available in its 80386SL microprocessors to a broad range of 80486 processors designed for use in portable personal computers, PC Week reports. On November 9, the company plans to kick off a lengthy 80486 product announcement schedule with the new 80486SL, a powerful update to the 80386SL with clock speeds of 25MHz and 33MHz. Over the next year and into 1994, the company plans to release several new 80486SX, 80486 and DX2 chips for portables in its efforts to obsolete the 80386 and keep the chip cloners on the hop. The parts will have a fully static design, which enables the motherboard to stop drawing power between keystrokes, and an input-ouput restart feature that turns peripherals off and on quickly. The chips are seen powering kit costing over $2,000.
