Intel has long dominated the competitive computer chip market. Their Celeron chips cover the low end of the market while their recently introduced second generation Pentium III chips span the rest of the markets. AMD, Advanced Micro Devices, which has always been competitive with Intel’s cheaper low end chips with its powerful but inexpensive K6 II and K6 III chips, has now entered the high end graphics driven market. They recently introduced Athlon chips that have clock cycles as high as 700 mhz and go toe to toe with Intel’s best. The extremely fast and versatile chip’s high clock rate and improved bus speed help make the Athlon a worthy competitor. Motorola recently introduced the G4 chip, based on the highly acclaimed G3 chip found in many Macintosh computers that is able to process information in large 128 bit chunks. Although the G4 runs at a considerably lower clock rate than its competitor’s chips, it can process more information at once. The G4 is so fast that the United States government forbids it from being exported to certain countries for fear of it being used successfully for illegal code breaking. Overall, there have been very important and dramatic improvements in the speed and quality of computer chips in past weeks. Any of these three companies would be sound investments as the technology section of the market continues to surpass expectations. These are three companies that will surely be around for years to come.