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    The Cyrix 6x86 is a line of sixth-generation, 32-bit x86 microprocessors designed and released by Cyrix in 1995. Cyrix, being a fabless company, had the...
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    with a new name, Cyrix's 5x86 implemented some Pentium-like features. Later in 1995, Cyrix released its best-known chip, the Cyrix 6x86 (M1). This processor...
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    by IBM. The line came out about 5 months before the more famous Cyrix 6x86. The Cyrix 5x86 was one of the fastest CPUs ever produced for Socket 3 computer...
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  • The Cyrix coma bug is a design flaw in Cyrix 6x86 (introduced in 1996), 6x86L, and early 6x86MX processors that allows a non-privileged program to hang...
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    was found to be fairly low compared to the competition. The fact that Cyrix 6x86-line were only 486-compatible, not 100% Pentium-compatible, intensified...
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  • acquired these techniques around 1995 with the releases of Pentium Pro, Cyrix 6x86, Nx586, and AMD K5. When a computer program accesses the same data repeatedly...
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    The Cyrix Cx486 was an x86 microprocessor designed by Cyrix. It primarily competed with the Intel 486 with which it was software compatible, would operate...
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    motherboard. Processors that used Socket 7 are the AMD K5 and K6, the Cyrix 6x86 and 6x86MX, the IDT WinChip, the Intel P5 Pentium (2.5–3.5 V, 75–200 MHz)...
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  • Pentium competitors such as the Cyrix 6x86 did not always have a TSC and may consider RDTSC an illegal instruction. Cyrix included a Time Stamp Counter...
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  • Cyrix, 6x86 Processor data book, order no. 94175-01, March 1996, section 2.6.5, p. 74 Linux kernel archive, Re: Cyrix 6x86 Patch.., 4 Nov 1996 Cyrix,...
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    include a 6-stage pipeline (vs. 5 on P5) with a return stack (first done on Cyrix 6x86) and better parallelism, an improved instruction decoder, 16KB L1 data...
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  • Technology of the People's Republic of China Cyrix MII, a rebranded Cyrix 6x86MX CPU, which was an updated Cyrix 6x86 with the MMX instruction set Search for...
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    MediaGX (category Cyrix x86 microprocessors)
    as the processor was based on the 5x86 (a scaled down version of the Cyrix 6x86). While the 5x86 was intended to compete with the Intel Pentium line,...
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    and also used for 80486 motherboards upgrades. While the Cyrix Cx5x86 faded when the Cyrix 6x86 took over, the AMD Am5x86 remained important given AMD K5...
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    share. WinChip C6 was a competitor to the Intel Pentium and Pentium MMX, Cyrix 6x86, and AMD K5/K6. It performed adequately, but only in applications that...
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  • of the Intel Pentium. On the Cyrix 5x86 and 6x86 CPUs, CPUID is not enabled by default and must be enabled through a Cyrix configuration register. On NexGen...
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    with low-cost chips from Intel competitors, such as the AMD K6 series or Cyrix 6x86. The graphics controller had Direct3D 6.0 and OpenGL support, although...
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    allowed higher clock frequencies compared to designs such as the advanced Cyrix 6x86. The simplest processors are scalar processors. Each instruction executed...
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  • and Technologies (the Super MATH coprocessors), Cyrix (the FasMath, Cx87SLC, Cx87DLC, etc., 6x86, Cyrix MII), Fujitsu (early Pentium Mobile etc.), Harris...
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    FSB/HT (MHz) Southbridge Features / Notes AMD-640 chipset AMD-640 1997 K6, Cyrix 6x86 ? 66 (FSB) AMD-645 AMD licensed VIA Technologies' Apollo VP2/97 AMD-750...
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    mirroring other contemporary x86 designs such as the NexGen Nx586 and Cyrix 6x86. The Pentium Pro pipeline had extra decode stages to dynamically translate...
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    Intel Pentium PGA 273 ? 60–100 MHz Socket 5 1994 Intel Pentium AMD K5 Cyrix 6x86 IDT WinChip C6 IDT WinChip 2 PGA 320 ? 50–100 MHz Socket 6 ? Intel 80486...
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  • Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System a codename for Cyrix 6x86 processor M1-DA, M1, or VESA Plug and Display connector a part number...
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  • in-order superscalar original Pentium and the out-of-order superscalar Cyrix 6x86 are well-known examples of this. The frequent memory accesses for operands...
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    scheme: IBM partnered with Cyrix to produce the 5x86 and then the very efficient 6x86 (M1) and 6x86MX (MII) lines of Cyrix designs, which were the first...
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    K5's floating-point performance was regarded as superior to that of the Cyrix 6x86,[clarification needed] it was slower than that of the Pentium, although...
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  • (passwords) – Cryptanalysis – Cryptography – Cybersquatting – CYK algorithm – Cyrix 6x86 D – Data compression – Database normalization – Decidable set – Deep Blue...
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  • still fully feasible to do so - clearly exemplified by the i486, AMD K5, Cyrix 6x86, Motorola 68040, etc. Non-RISC instructions inherently perform more work...
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  • by SGI/MIPS (R10000) and HP PA-RISC (PA-8000) in 1996. The same year Cyrix 6x86 and AMD K5 brought advanced reordering techniques into mainstream personal...
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  • "CentaurHauls" – IDT WinChip/Centaur (Including some VIA and Zhaoxin CPUs) "CyrixInstead" – Cyrix/early STMicroelectronics and IBM "GenuineIntel" – Intel "GenuineIotel" –...
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