Problems with the Cyrix 6×86’s cache under Windows NT have forced Microsoft to more or less high-handedly reconfigure the processor. Then it works just ticking over, at least in current versions.

I'm planning to put a cyrix CPU in an sv24. I've read that this can work ok without a fan. OK, here's the proverbial stupid question: do I still have to attach the heat sink and just not plug in the ...

National Semiconductor’s decision to leave the consumer PC processor category will have little effect on the downwardly spiraling prices that processors and PCs have endured, but industry watchers are ...

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, ...

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 ...

As the only major system player that doesn’t offer both a CPU and a graphics processing unit (GPU), Nvidia has no choice today but to get with the program, say experts. Not having a CPU wasn’t an ...

(Post taken from /. news). A long time ago, in what feels like a different universe, Cyrix created the first sub-$1000 PC based on a 2 chip solution called the Media-GX. Soon after National ...