The x86 CPU landscape of the 1980s and 1990s was competitive in a way that probably seems rather alien to anyone used to the duopoly that exists today between AMD and Intel. At one point in time, ...

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 ...

At the time I remember that the issue was one of patentability. They were having a hard time 'locking' down the socket as a proprietary standard. It was easy enough for AMD, Cyrix, IDT and others to ...

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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, ...

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 ...

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