Anonymous Coward wrote on 2022-05-29, 03:25:
There is a 433gp silver top? That must be worth something, I’ve never seen one.
I never even heard of one. I'm familiar only with the 333GP 4*66MHz silver topped ones.
I've always wondered what the deal was with these silver topped MIIs anyway and also the black topped ones. The heatspreader design is somewhat odd.
The silver ones being flip chip ones seems interesting to me, though then why didn't VIA continue with the flip chip design after they had taken over if the knowledge was there?
Or was the knowledge with IBM or whoever made it? Didn't IBM split with Cyrix before MII happened?
But at any rate, these Cyrix CPUs are so weird sometimes, it's almost as if these kept making changes with every single batch of chips they ordered, trying out all kinds of different things, but didn't always bother to make a modelling scheme that made sense to people not familiar with Cyrix internals.
Would be really cool to learn from someone who actually worked at Cyrix at the time what the deal was with all these different designs! 😀
Perhaps the silver topped CPUs were embedded versions or something? In such a case, it would put them in a similar role to the various AMD embedded K6* chips