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Rise and Fall of Cyrix

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The company is not able to make processors luxury, but a means of calculating. As the leading producers of processors, you can now call? Undoubtedly, nor how many would you have listed, on top of the list are two monster processor industry - Intel and AMD. But even twelve years ago, AMD had chances corporation not to be mentioned - the second line pedestal forgotten now been firmly company Cyrix ... Company history dates back quite far in 1988, when the U.S. city of Richardson, two experts on mathematical coprocessor with high productivity have decided to organize a company that produces those goods in which they best understand. The names of Engineers merchants - Jerry Rogers and Tom Braytman. Both of them to the ground Cyrix worked in the company Texas Instruments. The first product of the new producer of processors - a mathematical coprocessor 83D87, compatible with the architecture x86, - became a hit due to the fact that his performance was one and a half times higher than for the...

News for developers

* The company Intel announced a new tool for the development of multithreaded applications, the possibility of using modern multicore processors. Intel Parallel Studio will be implemented as a set of additions to the environment Microsoft Visual Studio. Intel Parallel Advisor will help find sites in the code, which can benefit from the use of parallel processing. Intel Parallel Composer will help to connect quickly means parallel processing in the annex to the C / C - will be used for this special multi-processing library. Intel Parallel Inspector help advance to find errors in applications for multiprocessor systems, and thereby save the time required to debug programs, and Intel Parallel Amplifier is a analyzer productivity applications for search of "bottlenecks" in them. Reported that will be supported by Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, a beta test Intel Parallel Studio is scheduled for November this year. * Microsoft Corporation has released a new, third of i...