Rise Technology was a short lived

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manufacturer that produced the

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MMX compatible

mP6 The Rise mP6 was a superpipelined and superscalar microprocessor designed by Rise Technology to compete with the Intel Pentium line. History Rise Technology had spent 5 years developing a x86 compatible microprocessor, and finally introduced ...

processor. The mP6 was a microprocessor that was designed to perform a smaller number of types of computer instructions so that it can operate at a higher speed (perform more millions of instructions per second, or MIPS). The

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based company was started by David Lin in 1993 with funding from 15

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

ese investors, including UMC, ACER and

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. After multiple company restructurings, the

was announced at the end of 1998 and went into small production in 1999. The device was meant for the low-end, low-power segment of laptop computers. Finding itself unable to compete in the computing market with the larger vendors (

and

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), Rise re-targeted itself to

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es and internet appliances. Towards that goal, Rise licensed their cores to

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. The company was acquired by SiS at the end of 1999.

References

External links

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Rise Technology information on cpu-collection.de

Rise PR266 PR333 on cpumuseum.jimdofree.com
Defunct semiconductor companies of the United States Defunct companies based in California Companies established in 1993 Companies disestablished in 1999 {{ict-company-stub