Cyrix
Cyrix is an American company manufacturer of the Microprocesseur S compatible with those of Intel.
Founded in 1988, it was repurchased in 1997 by National Semiconductor then resold in July 1999 with the Taiwan board VIA Technologies.
Among them, one can quote M1, more known under trade names of 6x86 PR133+, PR166+ and PR200+. Left in 1995, this processor, compatible with the Pentium of Intel was worth a court, but real, success with the mark. Thanks to its price, quite lower compared to that of the Pentium of Intel, it offered a true alternative. But it itself was competed with by the arrival of AMD on the market. For lack of technological research, Cyrix gave up the market of the processors PC.
Its success was due to its compatibility with the platform Pentium of Intel and to his best quality ratio/price: the PR166+ in particular cost the price of a Pentium 133MHz, offered performances in similar Floating decimal point (3D), and performances in Fixed point higher going in certain cases to catch up with a Pentium 200MHz.
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