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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.
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. The 6x86 was made as a direct competitor to Intel's Pentium microprocessor line, and was pin compatible.
Nov 3, 2022 · A nostalgic look at Cyrix, a chip maker that competed with Intel and AMD in the 1990s, but failed to survive the market changes and mergers. Learn about its history, products, and legacy in the PC industry.
Apr 28, 2021 · The Cyrix 6×86 was a revolutionary CPU for its time, offering about 30% better performance than a Pentium, at least when it came to integer performance. But Cyrix used its controversial “P-rating,” selling 133 MHz chips as equivalent to Intel 166 MHz parts.
Founded in 1988 by ex-Texas Instruments staff, Cyrix began as a specialist supplier of high-performance math co-processors for Intel 286 and 386 systems.
The Cyrix 5x86 is a line of x86 microprocessors designed by Cyrix and released on June 5 of 1995. [1] [2] [3] Cyrix, being a fabless company, had the chips manufactured by IBM. The line came out about 5 months before the more famous Cyrix 6x86.
Oct 31, 2012 · Perhaps one of the most confusing, and misreported processor stories is that of the Cyrix Joshua processor. More correctly known as the VIA Cyrix III Joshua. Cyrix began sampling this successor to the MII in 1999, a tumultuous time in Cyrix’s history, as they were in the midst of being sold to VIA by National Semiconductor.
