It’s been fairly warm in Richardson, Texas, this winter. But at computer chipmaker Cyrix Corp., temperatures have taken a nosedive. Stan Swearingen, Cyrix’s senior director of business management, is ...
The x86 CPU landscape of the 1980s and 1990s was competitive in a way that probably seems rather alien to anyone used to the duopoly that exists today between AMD and Intel. At one point in time, ...
Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Motorola, Cyrix X86 family of processors: 8080, 8086, 8088, 80286, 80386, 80486, Pentium (P5), Pentium Pro, Pentium II MMX - additions to the CPU programming that ...
Most of you are no doubt familiar with Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, IBM, Texas Instruments, and possibly even VIA – but there's another precursor chipmaker you should know about: Cyrix. For the better part ...
Via Technologies is taking to the road. The chip and chipset maker, already a hit in Europe, is out to tout its low-cost Cyrix III to chip sellers in the United States. Via canvassed distributors and ...
TAIPEI — Via Technologies Inc. will use next month’s CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Germany, as the launching pad for an enhanced version of its Cyrix III processor aimed at low-cost PCs, the company ...
Socket 7 processors, primarily characterized by a common interface between the L2-cache bus and the main system bus, are available from AMD, IBM, Integrated Device Technology (IDT), Intel, ...
On March 25, VIA Technologies announced the launch of its new Cyrix III processor at CeBIT 2001 in Hannover, Germany. The new Cyrix III processor starts at speeds of 733MHz and is the first of its ...
What is known today as "x86" began its journey 40 years ago: The Intel 80386 was 32-bit, was built for over 20 years, and powered not only PCs. 40 years ago, Intel introduced its first true 32-bit ...