Thread: cyrix

i posted my 686th post before this one [being my 687th]... and i remembered cyrix... are they still around? what happened to them?

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Cyrix (pronounced SYE-rihks) was a line of low-cost microprocessors intended for personal computers and information appliances that competed, along with AMD and Intel, for the low-cost microprocessor market. Acquired by VIA Technologies, a Taiwan supplier of chipsets and processors, the Cyrix technology continues to be offered in the VIA Cyrix MII processor. VIA also offers is own VIA C3 processor.
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These thingies were funny though They got so damn hot you could easily heat your house with your computer

thanks adrian... and yeah i think there was an issue of them being hot when we [being my dad and i] had them in our systems... we never used any MIIs tho... i remember vaguely having a PR-75 chip at one time or the other... yes, and a cyrix at 133 mHz some time as well... since then it's been AMD / Intel... of which i can't say matters since i don't need a 1.4 Ghz... or even half of that... [tho it would be nice...]

does anyone have a site i could look into further? an official VIA site? thanks...

http://www.viatech.com/jsp/en/index.jsp