How many 686 CPU maker were there?

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I remember after my first year of college there was a whole flood of chips

Intel PII
AMD had the K6
Cyrix had the M2
IDP was it had the Winchip

were there others? I remember going to a computer store and was like seessh so many freaking choices
 
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weren't the IBM chips the exact same as the Cyrix?

DIdn't Cyrix contract it's IBM to make the chip until National Semi-conductor bought Cyrix and destroyed the company?
 
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I think VIA bought out Cyrix and one other CPU designer to eventually pimp out their samual chip
 
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The Cyrix "6x86" chips were actually 5x86 class chips. It competed with the Intel Pentium MMX, AMD K5 and NexGen 5x86. It also ran on Intel compatible socket 7 motherboards that held the Pentium and K5 chips.

They all had the Pentium's P54C/P55C pinouts.
 
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Originally posted by: piroroadkill
Originally posted by: Ready
btw, whetever happened to winchip?
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Only good thing to come out of this thread. What DID happen to them?
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VIA bought them, and their CPU design became the VIA C3.
 
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