Editing Intel i960 (section)

==End of development==
Intel attempted to bolster the i960 in the I/O device controller market with the [[I2O]] standard, but this had little success and the design work was eventually ended. By the mid-1990s its [[price/performance ratio]] had fallen behind competing chips of more recent design, and Intel never produced a reduced-power-consumption version that could be used in battery-powered systems.

In 1990, the i960 team was redirected to be the "second team" working in parallel on future [[Intel i386|i386]] implementations—specifically the P6 processor, which later became the [[Pentium Pro]]. The i960 project was given to another smaller development team, essentially ensuring the end of its developmental life.