Whatever happened to Rise and Winchip?

[BigRed]

i was just thinking back to my old processors i had and i remember having a winchip2 250mhz and a winchip3 200mhz and a rise Mp6 250mhz.
i remember the winchip 3 owning a k6300 :p cuz it has like 128kb of L1 cache.
and the rise chip looked promising, it wasnt that great but it wasnt horrible either.

anyone know what happened to these companies?

[BigRed]

oh cmon, i cant be the only lamer out that that bought one of these to tinker with way back in the day :p

ok a new question, have any of you even HEARD of these companies? lol
im guessing most the answers will be no

[cjlax5]

they sound slightly familier...

[RED Hot Machine]

I remeber Winchip. It was in all the mags, about how it was going take over intels hold on the budget market. Never happened.

[BigRed]

Originally posted by RED Hot Machine
I remeber Winchip. It was in all the mags, about how it was going take over intels hold on the budget market. Never happened.
the winchip3 cpu ruled though, i wish they did take it over :)

[flounder43]

It died. I think that IDT and Centaur were making it, then Via (Cyrix) acquired Centaur...

http://www.centtech.com/designs.html