Cyrix Corporation was a microprocessor developer that was founded in 1988 in Richardson, Texas, as a specialist supplier of floating point units for 286...
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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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The Cyrix Cx486DLC is an x86 desktop microprocessor developed by Cyrix. It was Cyrix's second CPU offering, released years after selling math coprocessors...
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The Cyrix Cx486SLC is a x86 microprocessor that was developed by Cyrix. It was one of Cyrix's first CPU offerings, released after years of selling math...
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The Cyrix 5x86 is a line of x86 microprocessors designed by Cyrix and released on June 5 of 1995. Cyrix, being a fabless company, had the chips manufactured...
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purchased both Centaur Technology and Cyrix. Cyrix III was to be based upon a core from one of the two companies. The Cyrix III was launched in late February...
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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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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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infringement, and Cyrix for antitrust claims. In 1994, Cyrix won the patent infringement case and dropped its antitrust claim. In 1995, both Cyrix and AMD began...
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was Mark Bluhm, who was formerly a vice president at Cyrix. A group of nine employees left the Cyrix division of Via on March 21, 2000 to staff the company...
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large amount of publicity and awards with the development of the Cyrix Media Center, Cyrix WebPad, WebPad Metro and National Origami PDA concept devices...
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Cyrix was bought by National Semiconductor. Later processors from AMD and Intel retain compatibility with the original Pentium. AMD K5, AMD K6 Cyrix 6x86...
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P-rating, or Pentium rating) system was a figure of merit developed by AMD, Cyrix, IBM Microelectronics and SGS-Thomson in the mid-1990s as a method of comparing...
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processor core itself is derived from the Cyrix MediaGX platform, which was acquired in National's merger with Cyrix in 1997. AMD bought the Geode business...
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Pentium microprocessors manufactured by Intel, as well as compatibles made by Cyrix/IBM, AMD, IDT and others. Socket 7 was the only socket that supported a...
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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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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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Unmatched - SiFive Boards". GUO, Chang-You (May 1, 2001). "VIA Cyrix C3處理器揭露威盛另一市場雄心" [VIA's Cyrix C3 reveals another market ambition]. ctimes.com.tw. Retrieved...
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microprocessors List of VIA Nano microprocessors "IA-32 implementation: VIA Cyrix III". sandpile.org. Archived from the original on 2007-07-09. Retrieved...
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popular among computer enthusiasts but did poorly with OEMs. The Cyrix Cx486SLC and Cyrix Cx486DLC processors were pin-compatible with i386SX and i386DX...
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Although VIA branded the processors as "Cyrix", the company initially used technology similar to the WinChip in its Cyrix III line. All models supported MMX...
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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...
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in Cyrix CPUs as well as NatSemi/AMD Geode CPUs derived from Cyrix microarchitectures (Geode GX and LX, but not NX). They are also present in Cyrix manufacturing...
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OverDrive and Pentium OverDrive processors as well as AMD Am486, Am5x86 and Cyrix Cx5x86 processors. List of Intel microprocessors List of AMD microprocessors...
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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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in the computing market for more than a couple of product generations. Cyrix was successful during the 386 and 486 generations of products but did not...
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manufacturing base in Taiwan and neighbouring China. In 1999, VIA acquired most of Cyrix, then a division of National Semiconductor. That same year, VIA acquired...
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MediaGX (category Cyrix x86 microprocessors)
The MediaGX CPU is an x86-compatible processor that was designed by Cyrix and manufactured by National Semiconductor following the two companies' merger...
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(embedded) line to DM&P) IDT (Centaur Technology x86 division acquired by VIA) Cyrix (acquired by National Semiconductor) National Semiconductor (sold the x86...
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lower-level access to the CPU and in some cases privilege escalation. VIA Cyrix III was renamed VIA C3 with the switch to the advanced "Samuel 2" (C5B)...
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