Cyrix Corporation was a microprocessor developer that was founded in 1988 in Richardson, Texas, as a specialist supplier of floating point units for 286 and 386 microprocessors. The company was founded by Tom Brightman and Jerry Rogers.

Jul 4, 2024 · For the better part of a decade, Cyrix brought the world of personal computing to millions in the form of attainable budget PCs. However, the company was ultimately killed by its best product,...

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 chips manufactured by IBM and SGS-Thomson. [1][2] The 6x86 was made as a direct competitor to Intel's Pentium microprocessor line, and was pin compatible.

Apr 28, 2021 · Cyrix was a scrappy, up and coming CPU manufacturer in the 1990s. They never had Intel’s name recognition, but for a few years they made life more difficult for its larger rivals, Intel and AMD. For a while, Cyrix processor chips were …

The MediaGX CPU is an x86 -compatible processor that was designed by Cyrix and manufactured by National Semiconductor following the two companies' merger. It was introduced in 1997.

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Jan 6, 2025 · The VIA Cyrix III was a short-lived Socket 370 CPU produced by VIA using technology it acquired from Cyrix and Centaur, two makers of Socket 7 CPUs. VIA first introduced the Cyrix III on January 5, 2001.

Dating from the time of their 486 line of processors, in 1989, it was Cyrix, together with fellow long-time Intel cloner Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), who have posed the most serious threat to Intel’s dominance.

Nov 12, 2024 · 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...

Aug 28, 2019 · There was also Cyrix, and for a short time, there were Intel-compatible processors made by VIA and IDT. I found a video on YouTube talking about Cyrix and what happened to them.