Its successor, the PC-9801E, which appeared in 1983, employed an 8086-2 CPU, which could selectively run at a speed of either 5 or 8 MHz. The NEC PC-9801VM used NEC V30 CPU.

4. NEC PC-9801 Models (1988) The PC-98 series was a hugely successful x86-based platform that spanned from 1982 into the year 2000, and yet none of the machines made it to the US.