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Cyrix
Last modified: Wednesday, July 18, 2001
A U.S. corporation founded in 1988 that manufactures Intel-compatible microprocessors. Its 6x86 line of processors is comparable to Intel's line of Pentiumchips. Cyrix was acquired by National Semiconductor in 1997 and then by VIA in 1999.