I found this trolling Google.
Might be the literal end to VIA in the x86 space, at least what little was left of it.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/17049/via-to-o … for-125-million
That article is pretty unclear. It's speculating about Centaur, originally from IDT, which I never really cared for. I think the real number 3 player in x86 was Cyrix, which I find is hard to define where that ended up, as it ended up playing more of a role to AMD than VIA. If anyone finds royalty-free Cyrix design rights for sale, let me know...
the3dfxdude wrote on 2021-11-13, 02:02:That article is pretty unclear. It's speculating about Centaur, originally from IDT, which I never really cared for. I think the real number 3 player in x86 was Cyrix, which I find is hard to define where that ended up, as it ended up playing more of a role to AMD than VIA. If anyone finds royalty-free Cyrix design rights for sale, let me know...
Yeah it is very unclear. Even the author touched on that.
I never owned any IDT chips so I have no experience there, although I know they were always ultra budget offerings.
I still find the topic interesting though. It is interesting to me just how the IP get purchased, split up and passed around.
