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AMD Buys Pre-VIA Cyrix Media-GX Division

Posted by timothy on from the the-chips-that-started-out-down dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A long time ago, in what feels like a different universe, Cyrix created the first sub-$1000 PC based on a 2 chip solution called the Media-GX. Soon after National Semiconductor bought Cyrix, keeping the Media-GX team and selling the 686MX team to VIA. In the meantime, the Media-GX team have created the a series of single chip PCs, and a totally new CPU, the GX2. Now National Semiconductor is selling the division to AMD, which should give it a higher profile and better fab technology again." Reader jlouderb reminds us of National Semiconductor's Device Girls promotion, "a lame take-off on the Spice Girls," and points to coverage at eWeek of the purchase.

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  1. Reminds me of something else... by goldspider · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Reader jlouderb reminds us of National Semiconductor's Device Girls promotion, 'a lame take-off on the Spice Girls,'"

    Am I the only one who thought of "Device Girls" as those unenlightened females who prefer various mechanical devices over us virile geeks?

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    1. Re:Reminds me of something else... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Am I the only one who thought of "Device Girls" as those unenlightened females who prefer various mechanical devices over us virile geeks?

      yes

  2. Re:Device Girls by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, I wanna know where they are now. Where's the E! True Hollywood Story on the Device Girls? Are they in pr0n, yet? :)

    USB Spice
    FireWire Spice
    Gigabit Spice
    mini-ITX Spice

    Mmmmm.

  3. Arrgh by 4of12 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please, do not revive the old jokes about mount and devices.

    We've all read the sigs about the subject.

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  4. Re:Device Girls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "What about SCSI spice?"

    Yeah, she was racked......

  5. This headline has so many acronyms... by Savatte · · Score: 3, Funny

    that with a few changes, it would be as if somebody forgot to turn caps lock off.

  6. If ya wanna be my lover by aardwolf204 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ya gotta be compatible

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  7. Re:Device Girls by tuffy · · Score: 3, Funny
    USB Spice FireWire Spice Gigabit Spice mini-ITX Spice

    Don't forget PSpice.

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  8. Good tech by afidel · · Score: 3, Funny

    I remember Alan Cox stating that he was using a Media-GX based system to write and test the soundblaster layer for linux because the media-GX was a better fit to the SB standard then any of Creatives then current chips. He reasoned that if he could get closer to the origional standard then most clones would work, and aparantly he was right =)

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  9. Re:What AMD needs to buy is... by theendlessnow · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... Intel. That would certainly solve many of their problems.