1994 AMD landed a major deal with Compaq to supply Am486 processors to power Compaq PCs. 1996 AMD purchased NexGen for $857 million in stock, to take on Intel’s Pentium line of chips.

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 ...

There’s no point in denying it — if you’re a regular reader of Hackaday, you’ve almost certainly got a favorite chip. Some in the audience yearn for the simpler days of the 6502, while ...

Not counting my laptops and other mobile devices. The biggest jump for me was obviously my first upgrade. That Pentium 90 lasted me for many years. It saw the rise and fall of 3Dfx. The second ...

The last clone in the true Clone Wars, AMD's Am486 debuted almost a full four years after Intel's 486 came out, and one month after the Pentium. To compete with the existing 486 chip, AMD undercut ...

Yes so you can use your leet jumper skillz and OC it to da maxxx... -- View image here: http://arstechnica.infopop.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_redface.gif --!