Think how great it would be if personal computers had the longevity of can openers. A good one might last a lifetime. Unfortunately, that’s wishful thinking. These days, having a state-of-the-art PC ...

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In a new installment on computer history, [Bradford Morgan White] takes us through the sordid history of Cyrix, as this plucky little company created the best math co-processors (FasMath) and then a ...

National Semiconductor’s decision to leave the consumer PC processor category will have little effect on the downwardly spiraling prices that processors and PCs have endured, but industry watchers are ...

The x86 CPU landscape of the 1980s and 1990s was competitive in a way that probably seems rather alien to anyone used to the duopoly that exists today between AMD and Intel. At one point in time, ...

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 ...

They are alot slower (at the same speed I mean, though IIRC they are slower even at a much faster speed ) but at the same time cheaper, and cooler. Personally, I wouldn't buy one, with the possibly ...

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 ...

Clone chip manufacturer Cyrix turned in a loss of close to $7 million for its third quarter, but insisted it was on the rebound with sales set to rise for the next three months, despite IBM ...

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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, ...