Level of integration wasnt the thing that made 386SL special, there were 8088/8086 SoCs before it like NEC V40 used in 1987 Zenith Eazy PC or V50 in 1988 Akai S

Level of integration wasnt the thing that made 386SL special, there were 8088/8086 SoCs before it like NEC V40 used in 1987 Zenith Eazy PC or V50 in 1988 Akai S1000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_V20#Variants_and_successors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_V20#Variants_and_successor... What made 386SL special was introduction of System Management Mode (SMM). Intel sued AMD over Am386 SMM implementation, AMD tried claiming its not really SMM but jut some left over debugging ICE implementation :D https://ir.amd.com/sec-filings/content/0000898430-94-000804/EX-99_1.txt https://ir.amd.com/sec-filings/content/0000898430-94-000804/...