Is Cyrix doomed?

[rand_79]

When is the last time you heard of a press release or new chip from them?

or any product that has a chip from them in it?












Ok this is a parody of the other 2 threads : :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[jj463rd]

I've heard that they made the most powerful 486 CPU.

 

[jsc]

I've heard that there are dead aliens at Area 51.

 

[outlw6669]

Yeah, Cyrix went belly up way back in November '97.
It was merged with National Semiconductor for under 2 years then sold off to VIA Technologies.
The reason VIA is able to produce x86 CPU's is because of Cyrix's x86 license and tech.

With that in mind, all those press reports of VIA C7's and VIA Nano's could kinda, sorta, be attributed to Cyrix.

 

[jitpublisher]

I once owned a Biostar board with a Cyrix 166+ processor.
I am so ashamed.

 

[rand_79]

that reminds me of my k6-200 chip.. I had 64meg of ram and some volcano or earthquake destroyed a big memory plant and 128MEG of sd-ram shot up to 250$

at the time I was playing planescape torment that required at least 128meg of ram or it studdered horribly (it would page file the textures)

OH THE PAIN... now I have 8GB

 

[jimmysmitty]

I've heard that they made the most powerful 486 CPU.

And I have one in my CPU collection. It sets next to my Pentium Pro.

 

[jj463rd]

And I have one in my CPU collection. It sets next to my Pentium Pro.

Cool I have a friend who also collects CPU's although I prefer to have older working systems.I have several still working systems with the AMD Am5x86 at 133 Mhz though.Not as potent as the Cyrix 5x86 but close.
I've got to keep them to still enjoy my monstrous DOS game collection.

 

[jitpublisher]

I had one of those AMD 5X86 133mhz processors!
At the time, I had it on a board that supported 15/20/25/33/40 and 50mhz bus speeds.
I had started with a 486DX 33, later upgraded to an Intel DX4 100, and then dropped the AMD chip on(someone had given it to me)
It was my first overclock, and quiet by accident. When I booted, for some reason the BIOS set the bus at 40mhz, and the Processor was running at 200mhz!
That was a huge, huge thing! I got online, and did some research to see what was going on, and learned about overclocking. (And Toms about that time as well) So I just left it there, and it ran perfectly fine, and fast.

 

[nforce4max]

Well I got two M2(s) and a 386 with a 486 instruction set which all still work but not in any use like my last remaining p4 (all are crap). They had it coming by the late 90s since they had a very hard time even competing in the low end segment in the time of the celleron and the k6-2. Their only success was the media GX and the one I found was liquid crap even to a 150mhz p1. :lol:

 

[Upendra09]

I would just like to

ADD THAT ANY BODY WHO TRIES TO PARODY MY THREAD AGAIN WILL HAVE TO PAY ME 5 USD FOR EVERY SINGLE RESPONSE

 

[djcoolmasterx]

Cyrix4life, Screw the evil INTELAMD

 

[rand_79]

but when you dont start a thread about intel or amd.. everyone is civil..

no cyrix fanboyism..

I'm an "enthusiast" which means for years I went amd.. currently using intel.

In another 1-2years I'll reevaluate the market offerings and decide again

price/performance/other factors.

 

[Newf]

Time for an Apple thread...

 

[fazers_on_stun]

Of course, it's the controversy plus links that drives the eyes to a particular thread . Sorta like the forum equivalent of Geraldo & other daytime 'talk' shows where they get guests who beat up on each other & half the words get bleeped out...

Notice that Upendra's continuation of the prior thread has got only 2 replies so far, after he warned Jenny, TC & me to stay out. Marketing 101

 

[amdfangirl]

I would just like to

ADD THAT ANY BODY WHO TRIES TO PARODY MY THREAD AGAIN WILL HAVE TO PAY ME 5 USD FOR EVERY SINGLE RESPONSE

Chill out.

I remember Cryrix.

Hehe, got a couple from salvaging.

They run from a generation where CPU upgrades were cool.

Ahh... the bad old days...

/daydreams about her K-6 2 computer...

 

[rand_79]

I had a ibm pc jr (xt 8088 processor 128k ram)
ibm 386sx-20mhz ps/2 (2meg ram no windows 42meg hdd)

amd k6-200, 8gb hd, 96?meg ram i forget. (8gig hdd was 400$ in 1997)

amd k6-2 350 oc to 433mhz

eventually I ended up with

amd opteron oc to 2.5ghz

then current system
intel q6600@3.2ghz 8gig ram, 4TB total hdd 8800gt (built 2year ago)

 

[Stardude82]

The AMD Geode line was a direct descendant of the Cyrix MediaGX. They still make them too although they aren't updating the line at all. My OLPC XO has one.

National Semiconductor is still around too, I'm sure I have some cheap electronics around with some NS op amps...