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 ...

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 ...

National Semiconductor’s decision to leave the consumer PC processor category will have little effect on the downwardly spiraling prices that processors and PCs have endured, but industry watchers are ...

National Semiconductor last week reported it had signed a letter of intent for the Taiwanese firm Via Technologies to purchase National’s Cyrix stand-alone X86 PC processor business for an undisclosed ...

This first installment in a series about silicon gone sour takes a look back at the Cyrix M1 and Intel's Itanium, as well as today's Barcelona from AMD. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer ...

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, ...

Cyrix today hit back at suggestions that it has hit rocky ground with its flagship line of 6x86 processors, after some reports suggested that it has experienced overheating problems caused by clocking ...

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, ...

They were purchased by VIA and is the basis of the C3 CPUs.

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