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To: Jules V who wrote (46695)	1/29/1998 12:42:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Jules - Re: "What do you make of this: Cyrix's MediaGX..." In one year, ONE mainline PC manufacturer - Compaq - has signed on with the MediaGX. Where is the groundswell of support except for this and a bunch of cheap MediaGX motherboards from Taiwan? Cyrix has lost money on this approach - they will continue to lose money as they add more features and increase their costs. When you read this Cyrix-Killer B.S. day in and day out in the media press, then read Cyrix's quarterly reports, you have to wake up and do a reality check! Cyrix is losing money and besides Compaq, nobody with a reputable brand name is using their product. Even IBM has dropped Cyrix - and IBM does the Fab work for Cyrix! Some endorsement! Reality speaks for itself - the technical media press puts their spin on things because they dislike runaway success. They think they can appeal to the populous by trumpeting the "David Beats Goliath" story day after day after day after day after day. David may have beaten Goliath (that's old news) but Intel makes a helluva lot of money and Cyrix loses a helluva lot of money. Period. Paul

To: Jules V who wrote (46695)	1/29/1998 6:07:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 186894

Jules, RE: "To: Paul Engel (46695 ) From: Jules V Thursday, Jan 29 1998 12:25PM EST Reply # of 46714 What do you make of this: byte.com When Cyrix began shipping the MediaGX in late 1996, the core speed was 133 MHz. Since then, Cyrix has introduced versions that run at 150 and 166 MHz, with a 200-MHz chip due soon. These cores don't support MMX and have relatively poor floating-point performance, but they can match or beat the Pentium when running common integer-intensive applications. " First of all the 200 Mhz MediaGx and beyond does support MMX instructions. Secondly, the MXi is why I hold NSM...just in case. Jim