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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

I've been looking at a few processors, I hear people raving about intel 1.6A which can be OCed to 2.2 GHz, then AMD's tbred running at 1.8 GHz and still running stride for stride with intel's top of ...

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, ...

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, ...