This first installment in a series about silicon gone sour takes a look back at the Cyrix M1 and Intel's Itanium, as well as today's Barcelona from AMD. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer ...

In 2003, nothing could stop AMD. This was a company that moved from a semiconductor company based around second-sourcing Intel designs in the 1980s to a Fortune 500 company a mere fifteen years later.

Cyrix today hit back at suggestions that it has hit rocky ground with its flagship line of 6x86 processors, after some reports suggested that it has experienced overheating problems caused by clocking ...

National Semiconductor last week reported it had signed a letter of intent for the Taiwanese firm Via Technologies to purchase National’s Cyrix stand-alone X86 PC processor business for an undisclosed ...

VIA Technologies is going after the sub-US$50 CPU market locally through Aptec, with the re-introduction of Cyrix to the Middle East. VIA is the world’s leading supplier of core logic chipsets for ...

The Pentium class MediaGX processor integrates memory and PCI controllers, graphics and audio into the CPU and carries a keen price that will create new opportunities in the sub-£1,000 PC market, ...

At the time I remember that the issue was one of patentability. They were having a hard time 'locking' down the socket as a proprietary standard. It was easy enough for AMD, Cyrix, IDT and others to ...

I chose my breakpoints as "after 486" and before slotted packaging where we see cache included as a separate chip, but on-package. One rare 5x86, three K6 processors and two K6-2 processors. Nothing ...