National Semiconductor


 * Cyrix WP (1997) → National Semiconductor WP (1998) → VIA WP (1999) → Texas Instruments (2011)

Timeline

 * National Semiconductor Corporation (NSC)


 * 1987 - National Semiconductor acquired Fairchild Semiconductor
 * 1997 - Fairchild Semiconductor became a separate company again
 * 1997 - National Semiconductor acquired Cyrix (microprocessors division)
 * 1999 - Cyrix (microprocessors division) was sold to VIA Technologies of Taiwan
 * 2011 - National Semiconductor acquired by Texas Instruments on September 2011

Geode / AMD Processors

 * Geode series CPU on Wikipedia (MediaGX) • AMD AMD CPU on Wikipedia (2003)
 * The series was originally launched by National Semiconductor as the Geode family in 1999.
 * The original Geode processor core itself is derived from the Cyrix MediaGX platform, which
 * was acquired in National's merger with Cyrix in 1997. AMD bought the Geode business from
 * National in August 2003 to augment its existing line of embedded x86 processor products.
 * AMD discontinued all Geode processors in 2019.