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 ...

LOS ANGELES--National Semiconductor, one of the companies that gave birth to the low-cost PC with its Cyrix chip brand, is, with the help of Hewlett-Packard, now looking to a future beyond the PC. But ...

running at their maximum speeds (via overclocking and a standard hsf) which of these processors could achive a higher clock frequency?<P>the pr233 has a higher stock clock than the 166 but the 166 ...

Think how great it would be if personal computers had the longevity of can openers. A good one might last a lifetime. Unfortunately, that’s wishful thinking. These days, having a state-of-the-art PC ...

In a new installment on computer history, [Bradford Morgan White] takes us through the sordid history of Cyrix, as this plucky little company created the best math co-processors (FasMath) and then a ...

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, ...

I don't know what happened recently. I got a few emails asking what happened to old tech companies, mostly CPU manufacturers. So I thought a thread was in order to share our memories.<BR><BR><B>Cyrix< ...

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 ...

First published 2 April, 1997. Cyrix's M2 processor is getting ready to join the coming out party for a new generation of processors. While AMD is getting set to launch its K6 processor next Thursday, ...

The Pentium class MediaGX processor integrates memory and PCI controllers, graphics and audio into the CPU and carries a keen price that will create new opportunities in the sub-£1,000 PC market, ...

IT'S CLEAR THAT $999 for a PC with ""current'' specifications--133 MHz clock speed, 24 MB of RAM, 2-gigabyte hard drive--is a price breakthrough (monitor not included). That's how much Compaq's new ...

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 ...