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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...
- 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...
- The
Cyrix Cx486DLC is an x86
desktop microprocessor developed by
Cyrix. It was
Cyrix's second CPU offering,
released years after selling math coprocessors...
- The
Cyrix Cx486SLC is a x86
microprocessor that was
developed by
Cyrix. It was one of
Cyrix's first CPU offerings,
released after years of
selling math...
- The
Cyrix 5x86 is a line of x86
microprocessors designed by
Cyrix and
released on June 5 of 1995.
Cyrix,
being a
fabless company, had the
chips manufactured...
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purchased both
Centaur Technology and
Cyrix.
Cyrix III was to be
based upon a core from one of the two companies. The
Cyrix III was
launched in late February...
- The
Cyrix Cx486 was an x86
microprocessor designed by
Cyrix. It
primarily competed with the
Intel 486 with
which it was
software compatible,
would operate...
- infringement, and
Cyrix for
antitrust claims. In 1994,
Cyrix won the
patent infringement case and
dropped its
antitrust claim. In 1995, both
Cyrix and AMD began...
- The
Cyrix coma bug is a
design flaw in
Cyrix 6x86 (introduced in 1996), 6x86L, and
early 6x86MX
processors that
allows a non-privileged
program to hang...
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Pentium competitors such as the
Cyrix 6x86 did not
always have a TSC and may
consider RDTSC an
illegal instruction.
Cyrix included a Time
Stamp Counter...
