They were actually the first one to market with a cpu that integrated the gpu and memory controller into the cpu.

Here's a tidbit from circa 1997. MediaGX anyone?

Cyrix MediaGX specs

Lets all hope that if AMD goes in this direction that it works out for them much better than it did for Cyrix.

they beat them back in 1997? and this year is 2006 am i wrong?
this my first time even hearing of cyrix.

whats the point of your post?

cirix were the worst CPU's made. i remeber using them back in collage and out of all the spare CPU's there the Pentium 1 at 75mHz was faster thean a cyrix 166mhz

Hey, I didn't say they were great, I just said they were first. Admittedly they did suck ballz performancewise.

I still remember them. I had the PR100 and PR200+ way back.

Ahhh... memories

Performance of Future 6x86MX CPUs

I used a couple of those back in the day. I had a Pentium Pro 150MHz and my friend had a Cyrix 200MHz... needless to say my system flat out wasted his for performance. I'm suprised they tried that whole integration thing though. Good for them. Doesn't look like it helped business wise.

Cyrix had some good company picnics, let me tell you!

Not sarcasm, really were good...for a kid at the time,

Cyrix is most well known (were that is) for their math co-processors for the 386 series machines (I had a 386SX-25mhz machine with a Cyrix Math CO it was the bomb ). They actually were the chip to have aside of your 386.

They later released 486 style chips that fluttered. Some really wanted the 486DX2-80mhz processor at the time.

Man I am old

You can Wiki for Cyrix and 486 and get a rather boring and not entirely accuate history lesson.

Is their a CPU museum?

I would go!

waits for the sound of other old timers thinking about the "good ol' days" where a p166 with a awe32 and a voodoo card was so cutting edge you mgiht just whore your own mother out to get them...

Also, I think they were the first to introduce the PR (performance rating) thing. Followed by AMD then Intel...

P166 and a voodoo card? That's not old enough. How bout being retarded and buying a pack hell p100 way overpriced with 1.6GB hd, 16 MB ram and 1MB video ram. And that's only 10 and a half years ago.

I had an overclocked Cyrix MII running at 250Mhz which was labelled 333+. It was built to compete with intel's PII 333 Mhz. Cyrix was outperformed by Pentium MMX 166 Mhz
By the way , my first PC was 486 DX2 at 66 Hmz and 650 mb hard drive and 8 megs of ram. these days it was awesome !

Heck yeah! My P100 rocked and I could play all sorts of games. Then it reached the point where I was looking at games at the local store and was sad because my computer couldn't run them anymore. What a shame. *Sound of flushing money down toilet*

I remember buying a Cyrix chip and mobo for my new QW habit, and the game was really jittery. I couldn't understand it as it was really fast in Windows 95.

Then I found out that its FPU was rubbish so it was slow in games - doh! So I got a PII instead - it was like night and day.

OMG - definitely dates me

No, being in college and connecting to the lan via an acoustic coupler would date you, not to mention the 300+ feet of paper you'd have to pull off the teletype terminal and take back to the dorm with you.. Man, I'm glad those days are over. (Oh, and that was only 1981). My first personal computer had 2k of ram (notice, not meg.). I was so happy when the Vic-20 came out with 5k ram.