Company: Cyrix, Inc.
Based: Richardson, Tx. Founded: 1988, merged with National Semiconductor in 1997. Bought by VIA in 2000. Founder: Jerry Rogers and Tom Brightman. Specialty: Fabless chip company. Reverse-engineered many Intel chip designs with product releases that were often higher performing. Products included math co-processors for 286 and 386 compatible microprocessors, 386, 486 & Pentium upgrade processors, Pentium microprocessor clones, various upgrade CPU replacements for many 1980-90's Intel designed sockets. |
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VIDEO: CYRIX MII Processor (1998)
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