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One Year Ago: Cyrix Cuts Chip Prices
News Cyrix's latest price cuts will no longer enable it to boast of doubling Intel's bang for buck but succeed in keeping it as a contender in the retail sector. While initial pricing on its 6x86MX processor family put Cyrix chips at half the cost of...
[August 4, 1998, 6:00]
Cyrix Plays Down CEO's Resignation
News "The M2 is on schedule, the GX is shipping, we're on allocation, and this will be our best quarter ever in terms of 6x86 unit sales," said Cyrix UK managing director Brendan Sherry. Jerry called about ten o'clock last night and said that after...
[December 10, 1996, 13:18]
Cyrix-based NetPC To Debut In January
News Based on a specially developed Cyrix CPU, the first system available will be from an undisclosed tier-one PC vendor, giving the category instant credibility. The system will use Cyrix's GX processor which runs applications faster than a 133MHz...
[October 31, 1996, 11:51]
Q&A: Cyrix's Rogers On Life In Intel's Shadow
News Jerry Rogers, president and CEO of chip manufacturer Cyrix has a tough task battling with Intel, a company which holds 95 per cent of the chip market. But he is confident that Cyrix will succeed through a combination of high innovation and...
[November 4, 1996, 12:04]
Cyrix Production Problems Hurt National
News "National expects sales from its recently acquired Cyrix business unit to decline in the third quarter," said a statement released on Monday by the Santa Clara, Calif.company. Still, the Santa Clara, Calif.company seems to have been surprised by...
[February 3, 1998, 9:44]
Cyrix 6x86MX .25 Micron First For Nat Semi Plant
News Cyrix is upping the stakes in the increasingly competitive semiconductor market after announcing that it will start volume production of its 6x86MX processor on .25 micron processing technology this summer at the National Semiconductor plant in...
[January 13, 1998, 15:47]
One Year Ago: Cyrix To Announce M2 Next Week
News Cyrix is expected to make the formal announcement of its M2 processor next week. However, rival AMD said today that Cyrix may be looking for crumbs when it goes searching for PC vendors willing to give the M2 a home.
[May 27, 1998, 6:00]
One Year Ago: Cyrix 300MHz PII Chip Ships Q1 1998
News Cyrix will push on with ambitious plans to release chips that will match projected 300MHz Pentium II performance early in 1998. The first spawn of the 6x86MX line - the PR166, PR200 and PR233 - run Windows applications at speeds analogous to a PII...
[June 5, 1998, 6:00]
AMD, Cyrix Want IBM To Cook More Chips
News The moves would make sense for AMD and National, which owns Cyrix, as both have struggled to produce sufficient numbers of microprocessors in recent times. IBM is thought to have significant over-capacity and has a current agreement to make wafers...
[February 27, 1998, 10:13]
US Report: Cyrix Beats Intel With 300MHz MII
News Cyrix's M II line is based on the existing Socket 7 motherboard and chip set architecture, which is well-entrenched and cheaper than newer Slot 1 designs. The M II, which replaces the 6X86MX line, will enable PC makers to deliver high-performance...
[April 14, 1998, 8:34]
Q&A: Cyrix's Rogers On The NetPC And The X86
News The Cyrix chip is not identical to the Intel chip. Cyrix is at the high-end and AMD is at the low-end if you range from 75MHz to 200MHz. In which areas do you feel Cyrix needs to improve? The three of us [Intel, AMD and Cyrix] are getting further...
[November 11, 1996, 10:20]
Comdex Fall: Cyrix Showcases Set-top Box
News The whole design is by Cyrix. It is likely that the UK and Europe will have to wait a little longer while Cyrix jumps the hurdle posed by differing TV standards. Cyrix's Ajouri said it will in the next few weeks release a new MediaGX chip set with...
[November 19, 1997, 13:37]
Cyrix UK, Industry Impressed With NatSemi Deal
News "It's really great news for Cyrix but it's business as usual for us," said Sherry. Elsewhere, reaction was positive with watchers observing that the deal gives loss-making Cyrix a better opportunity to compete.
[July 29, 1997, 10:10]
Cyrix Sale: Business As Usual
News In fact, as the disposition of subsidiary Cyrix Corp.s technology and design teams are debated over the next three to six months, the company hopes to garner more business. It is pretty much business as usual for the PC part of the Cyrix business...
[May 6, 1999, 7:44]
Cyrix Sues Intel For Patent Infringement
News Like Digital yesterday, Cyrix says Intel infringed its patents in Pentium, Pentium Pro and Pentium II processors. Cyrix is pursuing an injunction and unspecified damages and fees.
[May 14, 1997, 17:01]
Cyrix Recalled 10,000 Processors
News Cyrix Corp.has tightened up its CPU testing procedures after being forced to recall at least 10,000 of its 200MHz 6x86MX processors soon after their introduction. The problem has since been rectified, but the MMX-enabled processors, released in...
[August 28, 1997, 9:54]
A Year Ago Today: Cyrix Plays Down Overheating
News Cyrix today 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 the chips too high.
[August 19, 1997, 13:31]
Five Years Ago: M2 Bang On Time - Cyrix
News Cyrix's M2 processor is getting ready to join the coming out party for a new generation of processors. M2 is fine and hunky-dory and bang on date," said Brendan Sherry, Cyrix UK managing director. First published 2 April, 1997.
[March 25, 2002, 6:01]
M2 Bang On Time - Cyrix
News Cyrix's M2 processor is getting ready to join the coming out party for a new generation of processors. M2 is fine and hunky-dory and bang on date," said Brendan Sherry, Cyrix UK managing director. While AMD is getting set to launch its K6 processor...
[March 26, 1997, 14:58]
Cyrix To Announce M2 Next Week
News However, rival AMD said today that Cyrix may be looking for crumbs when it goes searching for PC vendors willing to give the M2 a home. Cyrix is] hitting the same speed grades as us and having both us and them in PC ranges would lead to confusion.
[May 27, 1997, 11:21]
