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Cyrix Cx5x86
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Cyrix 5x86.
The Cyrix 5x86 is a line of x86microprocessors designed by Cyrix and released on June 5, 1995. Cyrix, being a fabless company, had the chips manufactured by IBM. The line came out about 5 months before the more famous Cyrix 6x86. The Cyrix5x86 was one of the fastest CPUs ever produced for Socket 3computer systems. With better performance in most applications than an IntelPentium processor at 75 MHz, the Cyrix Cx5x86 filled a gap by providing a medium-performance processor option for 486 Socket 3 motherboards (which are incapable of handling Intel's Pentium CPUs, apart from the Pentium Overdrive).