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A Brief History of Cyrix
Litigation: it's the American way
The first few months of life saw APT grow to about twenty people total, and work on an 80387 compatible chip that would be ten times faster than the 80387 started almost immediately. Tom Brightman had started a skunk works at a Cyrix location in Longmont, Colorado a few years earlier to produce a system-on-a-chip that combined a 5x86 core with graphics and audio. The problem was that Intel had sued Cyrix a total of seventeen times by this point, and the cost of these legal actions coupled with bad press due to FPU performance took their toll.
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