In 1998:

• January 26: Compaq announced it will acquire DEC for $9.6 billion

• April 2: Intel introduces the Mobile Pentium II

• May 28: AMD introduces the K6-2 family implementing 3DNow SIMD extension

• July 7: Qualcomm announced they've acquired license for ARM Holdings' ARM7TDMI core to be used in their MSM3000 family of SoC