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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (33797)	3/27/2001 6:02:10 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (3) of 275872

Jim, I think the M1 / M2 core was fine for the period of time it existed. It was a killer chip on running normal business apps. The problem IMO was that Cyrix should have been working on a new core, the same way as AMD was. To stretch the life of this core to MXi (which was delayed so much that the company died before the chip arrived) was a mistake - maybe a lack of resources, most likely a lack of leadership. Jalapeno was too far in the future. I actually have a couple of chips that NSM made near the end, the chips they called I think PR-366 through PR-433, 300 MHz or 350 MHz in reality (IIRC) were not that bad, and extremely cheap, lengthening the lifetime of a few computers by a year or so for about $35. One thing I completely don't understand is what happened with this core once Via took over. They managed to get the core to run at I believe 600 MHz, added on chip L2, but the performance didn't change much from that of the old core with off-chip L2 running at 300 MHz. Joe

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