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Five Years Ago: Cyrix MediaGX Chip Drives Sub-£350 PC Quest
News 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, according to Cyrix.
[February 20, 2002, 6:01]
Cyrix To Add 3D, MMX To MediaGX
News Following on from the MediaGX chips that have found a home in Compaq, Elonex and other PCs, the next-generation integrated chips will be codenamed MXi, the Texan firm said at Microprocessor Forum `97.
[October 16, 1997, 14:39]
Comdex Fall: Cyrix Showcases Set-top Box
News The Media Center is a 2-in thick black pizza box-style case with 200MHz MediaGX processor, DVD player, TV and radio tuner, 3D audio, 56kbps modem, USB and IEEE.1394 FireWire ports, infra-red keyboard, microphone, full duplex speaker phone...
[November 19, 1997, 13:37]
PC Buyers Could Get Cheapest Xmas Ever
News Elonex's Lumina 166 uses Cyrix's very cheap MediaGX processor with 16Mb RAM, 1.7Gb hard drive, 16-speed CD-ROM drive and 14-inch monitor for just £595. Compaq, another vendor using the MediaGX, in September launched a consumer deal for its...
[December 2, 1997, 15:40]
A Year Ago: PC Buyers Could Get Cheapest Xmas Ever
News Elonex's Lumina 166 uses Cyrix's very cheap MediaGX processor with 16Mb RAM, 1.7Gb hard drive, 16-speed CD-ROM drive and 14-inch monitor for just £595. Compaq, another vendor using the MediaGX, in September launched a consumer deal for its Presario...
[December 1, 1998, 5:15]
US Report: HP Will Use AMD Chips
News Other PC vendors, including Compaq and NEC are using AMD's previous processor or the MediaGX from National Semiconductor. In late May, No.retail vendor Packard Bell added computers based on National Semiconductor's MediaGX processor.
[July 1, 1998, 9:02]
PAD Fact File
News Its version, called Geode, is the natural successor to the Cyrix-designed MediaGX processor. Geode is based on the MediaGX core, has less silicon and has additional features such as MPEG 2 decompression.
[July 16, 1999, 18:36]
Cyrix Production Problems Hurt National
News The production difficulties originate with a new version of the company's integrated MediaGX processor that it hoped to be shipping in volume by now. We have done a bad job jumping to the next generation (of MediaGX chip)," said Bernheimer.
[February 3, 1998, 9:44]
Analysis: Intel Takes Integrated Approach
News Available since February 1997, Cyrix shipped well over 1m MediaGX processors in its first 12 months, a unit that merges graphics, audio, memory and PCI and USB interfaces onto the CPU. In practice however, systems based on the MediaGX have often...
[July 14, 1998, 6:59]
Chipmaker Wants To Revive The Free PC
News The computer contained an integrated Cyrix MediaGX. National Semi sold most of its Cyrix business to Via Technologies in 1999, but retained the X86 licence and technology related to integrated X86 chips, such as MediaGX.
[February 14, 2001, 8:47]
COM One Delivers Set-top Box
News SurfTV Plus is based on Cyrix's MediaGX-133 processor and runs the QNX Unix variant. It lets users toggle between TV and the Web thanks to the inclusion of a Spyglass HTML 3.2 Web browser. A smart card lets users store ID and preferences and the...
[December 3, 1997, 16:53]
Five Years Ago: Compaq Plans £1K PC Based On Revolutionary Chip
News Sources said the sub-£1,000 consumer PC will use Cyrix's MediaGX processor, an integrated chip that combines a Pentium-class CPU with on-board audio and graphics to save the expense of add-in cards. First published 19 February, 1997
[February 19, 2002, 6:01]
Networks '97: Elonex Touts Web Sales, Recovery Services
News Elonex will next month step up its entry-level efforts by releasing a 166MHz version of the Cyrix MediaGX-based Lumina small footprint desktop, the firm said yesterday at the Networks '97 show in Birmingham.
[June 25, 1997, 8:59]
US Report: Packard Bell Launches Its Cyrix-based PC For $699
News The Packard Bell 550 uses a Cyrix MMX-enhanced MediaGX processor as part of a deal announced last week. At the time, the companies speculated that future collaborations using Cyrix' "system-on-a-chip" could produce systems costing under $600 (£415).
[May 29, 1998, 15:29]
Response Of The Week: In Chips, Bigger Is Better
News Andy@holgate.demon.co.uk wins the Logitech Pilot mouse this week for his forthright comments on last week's views of the Cyrix MediaGX processor. If you recall, last Friday David Birt called Cyrix "a voice of reason in the wilderness that is PC CPU...
[February 28, 1997, 15:59]
Compaq To Push Out Low-cost PC, Notebooks
News Likely to become part of the Presario line and possibly powered by Intel's 233MHz Pentium II or even Cyrix's first batch of MMX-enhanced MediaGX processors, the desktops will be aimed squarely at consumers and SoHo buyers
[January 6, 1998, 16:37]
Cyrix Still In The Red
News The CPU maker nevertheless expects an improvement in the second half of the year, thanks to recent product releases such as the 6x86MX and faster versions of its MediaGX, a highly integrated processor that packs graphics and sound functions.
[July 17, 1997, 11:25]
One Year Ago: Cyrix Still In The Red
News The CPU maker nevertheless expects an improvement in the second half of the year, thanks to recent product releases such as the 6x86MX and faster versions of its MediaGX, a highly integrated processor that packs graphics and sound functions.
[July 17, 1998, 6:00]
A Year Ago: COM One Delivers Set-top Box
News SurfTV Plus is based on Cyrix's MediaGX-133 processor and runs the QNX Unix variant. French communications firm COM One today announced what will be one of one the first companies to deliver a set-top box in the UK.
[December 2, 1998, 6:42]
Cyrix, Motorola Cook Fresh Chips
News Meanwhile, Cyrix will introduce 166MHz and 180MHz versions of the MediaGX integrated processor for low-cost PCs. Motorola will introduce a 250MHz PowerPC 604e, sources said, and will follow that up in August with a 350MHz 604e and the first...
[June 30, 1997, 11:07]
