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To: OldAIMGuy who wrote (6972)	2/23/1998 11:28:00 PM
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A service of Semiconductor Business News, CMP Media Inc. Story posted at 3:15 p.m. EST/12:15 p.m. PST, 2/23/98 Cyrix, AMD preview processors aimed at future low-cost PCs By Sandy Chen TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Intel Corp.'s processor rivals here today gave a sneak preview of their future products for the exploding, low-cost PC market. Cyrix Corp. briefly discussed its next-generation, MediaGX microprocessor, dubbed the MXi, which will be announced in the fourth quarter of 1998. Designed for sub-$1,000 PCs, the MXi will be bundled with 3-D or multimedia extensions, according to Bruce Date, Cyrix' director of engineering, at a seminar hosted by chip-set supplier Via Technologies Inc. here today. Date declined to elaborate on the details of the MXi, but Cyrix and Intel's other processor rivals gave a wider glimpse of their future chips that will support and extend the life of the Socket 7 architecture. Cyrix, for example, plans to roll out a 300-MHz version of its 6x86MX processor line that supports the emerging, 100-MHz bus in the second quarter of 1998. The chip, reportedly called the 6x86MX-PR300GP, is said to be the company's first processor to be manufactured in a 0.25-micron process technology. Designed for PCs that sell for $1,500 and below, the 6x86MX-PR300GP will be first made in IBM Corp.'s foundry, Date said. Cyrix' new owner--National Semiconductor Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif.--will also build the part this year. Meanwhile, Cyrix' other foundry partner is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC), Hsinchu. Like Cyrix, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. also outlined its upcoming K6 processor line that will extend the life of the Socket 7 architecture. However, Intel hopes to kill Socket 7 as it pushes OEMs over to its Pentium II processor--which is designed around a proprietary Slot architecture. Still, the Socket 7 architecture could be around perhaps beyond 1999, said Mark Lunsford, director of Asia-Pacific marketing for AMD, at the seminar. AMD and Cyrix are not taking any chances, however. AMD is devising a so-called Slot 1-like architecture, while Cyrix recently licensed Intel's own Slot 1 system.