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AMD claims K6-3D has lead on Katmai
News Intel has said it will keep the Katmai instruction set proprietary, diverging from the route it took with the MMX set which it licensed to AMD, Cyrix and other x86 chip makers. AMD today played down fears that Intel's refusal to license its Katmai...
[January 16, 1998, 14:22]
Mesh Matrix D750 Pro review
Reviews Intel is expected to respond by boosting the Celeron's clock speed and frontside bus speed before long, while another CPU set to make an impact in the budget PC market is VIA's Cyrix III. Based on the Athlon core but designed from the ground up as...
[October 23, 2000, 0:00]
Quotes of the Week, March 24-27
News Brendan Sherry, Cyrix. "Unless you can prove the RAM was manufactured outside Korea or Japan, or prove the goods were sold above the EC's reference price, there is a tariff. I'm not sure anybody was dumping.
[March 27, 1997, 10:02]
Veitch Speaks: Intel doesn't own the world
News In PCs, Intel remains the dominant force and there isn't any great prospect that that will change despite the best efforts of AMD, Cyrix, IDT and start-ups such as Transmeta. It is true that Intel architecture is a huge force in enterprise...
[January 16, 1999, 6:09]
ECTS: The Truth About the Dreamcast...
News On a PC there's a 32-bit Intel, AMD, Cyrix, or other chip, while the Dreamcast uses a 32-bit Hitachi SH-4.yup that's 32-bit folks. For the past few months Sega's Dreamcast has been turning gamers' heads with stellar looking titles and the promise...
[September 5, 1999, 7:49]
A Year Ago: ECTS: The Truth About the Dreamcast...
News On a PC there's a 32-bit Intel, AMD, Cyrix, or other chip, while the Dreamcast uses a 32-bit Hitachi SH-4.yup that's 32-bit folks. Heard about the Dreamcast? Think it's 128-bit? Think again. For the past few months Sega's Dreamcast has been turning...
[September 5, 2000, 7:01]
Quotes of the Week, October 28-November 1
News Cyrix MD Brendan Sherry on its adoption of Microsoft's NetPC platform. "The problem with Larry Ellison and Bill Gates is that they think because they have big companies, that they are the only two companies that can exist.
[November 1, 1996, 13:57]
Quotes of the Week, August 19-23
News Cyrix's Paul Norman on Intel's logistical problems. "It's a tad expensive, isn't it? AST's Steve Crawley on Compaq's TFT screen system. He put it in lots of newsgroups, suggesting it was a sexy program, so many users who got the virus were...
[August 23, 1996, 14:59]
Quotes of the Week, December 9-13
News Cyrix's Brendan Sherry on CEO Jerry Rogers stepping down from the helm. "We've been overwhelmed with requests for [NC] pilots," - IBM's David McAughtry on the popularity of the NC. Intel and Microsoft don't have a monopoly on the PC anymore.
[December 13, 1996, 9:41]
MMX will wait on optimised apps - AMD
News Cyrix says by the end of the year it will be sampling a version of the 6x86 processor, code-named M2, that supports the MMX instruction set. AMD said today it will add MMX instructions to its chips for the first time at the turn of the year...
[August 6, 1996, 11:10]
Quotes of the Week, June 9-13
News Cyrix's Brendan Sherry "This isn't so much a suck-it-and-see approach as a response to customer requirements. If it goes well, we'll look at bulking up at the high-end and the entry-level. Neil Dagger, options product marketing manager for Compaq...
[June 13, 1997, 17:29]
Quotes of the Week, February 17-21
News Cyrix's Brendan Sherry on the MediaGX processor. "The pent-up demand is huge and the companies who can make the drives will make a fortune. Imation's Lance Quantrill on 120Mb floppy drives. Symantec's] Norton Utilities is like having a set of very...
[February 21, 1997, 15:52]
Quotes of the Week, October 13-17
News Cyrix UK boss Brendan Sherry sticks the boot in. "We had a giggle when we saw the report from CI. We're seeing the opposite of the research here. We're focusing on second-time consumer buyers and we're finding that they're not looking for a £700...
[October 17, 1997, 11:28]
Timna chip turns back the clock
News Cyrix lead the way with its Media GX, but that chip's success was limited by poor overall performance. Clock-speed isn't everything. And that reality is about to be driven home by Intel's forthcoming Timna chip.
[May 12, 2000, 12:39]
A Year Ago: Timna chip turns back the clock
News Cyrix lead the way with its Media GX, but that chip's success was limited by poor overall performance. Intel's new chip goes against the gigahertz-happy grain -- trying to balance price and performance.
[May 12, 2001, 6:00]
Quotes of the Week, December 8-12
News Cyrix's Brendan Sherry. Microsoft can no longer make PC vendors install IE but it's a preliminary ruling at this stage. PC makers are free as they always have been to install another browser. Microsoft spokesman on the big DOJ ruling that said no...
[December 15, 1997, 12:59]
Intel's 'Timna' to kick-start low-end PCs?
News Cyrix's Media GX was the first, but that chip's success was limited by poor clock-speed performance. Intel's forthcoming Timna chip could revitalise the stalled market for sub-$600 (£390) PCs -- or prove to be another expensive stumble in attempts...
[May 5, 2000, 9:31]
The Luncher
News Cyrix: Polo shirt, mug (functional) I'm having tremendous trouble with it. The Active Desktop's causing all sorts of problems," an exasperated Dell exec said over lunch. The Luncher laughed into his beard.
[November 8, 1997, 7:00]
The Luncher
News Cyrix: Polo shirt, mug (functional) No, it was the raw fish to be gleaned at Yo! Sushi, the Japanese restaurant Microsoft used for the launch of Back Office for Small Office, or whatever it's called. Don't blame the chef!
[November 15, 1997, 7:00]
