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Friday, June 22, 2001
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5083121,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_rt_latest Cyrix is dead--VIA's in low-end PCs By Reuters May 17, 2001 5:21 PM PT HONG KONG--Taiwan chipset designer VIA Technologies has rebranded its microprocessor line under its own name and is releasing new products to gain market share in the low-end personal computer market, marketing director Richard Brown said on Thursday. Brown, speaking to an investor forum sponsored by Credit Lyonnais Securities (Asia), said the company will introduce its first 1GHz microprocessor--the central brain of a PC--by the fourth quarter under the VIA C3 name, just in time for Christmas. "We've dropped the Cyrix brand name. It was well known, but there were certain negative connotations because of issues with heat and with some of the older CPUs," Brown said....
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