Rise Technology MP6 PR 266 MHz

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Rise Technology MP6 PR 266 MHz
Strictly speaking, from UMC's development of Taiwan's first self-designed x86 processor to VIA's acquisition of Cyrix and Centaur in 1999, Taiwanese have not been in this area co-ruled by Intel and AMD. The market has been absent. Of course, whether the "sense of presence" is strong enough is another matter.
Kamikaze pilot: Rise
The company was established: 1993
Time the company disappeared: 1999 (acquired by SiS)
Number of employees: 100
The most iconic product: mP6
The transition from boom to bust: none
Regret of not being able to achieve: mP6 II
In October 1998, a certain American company founded by a Taiwanese in Santa Clara, California in 1993, with most of the capital behind it came from Taiwanese investors, was briefly in the x86 market for a short period of time. In 2009, the company was called Rise (Huaju Information), its product was called mP6, and the chip was also manufactured by TSMC. If you can still remember the figure of this CPU, most of you are a little old Keke.
In the late 1990s, it was also a critical moment for the explosive growth of notebook computers and low-cost computers. From Rise in 1993, Transmeta in 1995, and Centaur founded in the same year, they all focused on this "high-performance x86 processor." Royal Three" Intel AMD Cyrix has not yet concentrated on the blue ocean to seize. "Low clock", "low price" and "low power consumption" are all common features of Rise, Transmeta and Centaur.
From the native BGA package of mP6 (which is compatible with Socket 7 by placing a PGA 296-pin carrier board on the chip), to the support for System Management Mode (SMM) that allows system manufacturers to customize power management functions, Rise's focus has been heard. The strong flavor of notebook computers.
But Rise may be due to "the signs are wrong (after all, the low-cost product war between Intel and AMD started at the end of 1998, Celeron fought K6-2, the unfortunate Cyrix was the first to be beaten)", not only scheduled to debut in mid-1999, The mP6 II with built-in 256kB second-order cache memory has never been born, and even the mP6 PR333/PR366 with a 180nm process was only suspended in the engineering sample stage. Rise withdrew from the market at the end of 1999, and left behind The sad wish of entering the notebook computer market.
Not long after, SiS (Silicon System) also purchased its technology and intellectual property rights from Rise, making mP6 the processor core of the well-known SiS 550 series system single chip, and also turned into the technical starting point of DM&P (Zhanying All Electronics) Vortex86 . These are all Taiwanese manufacturers, making the Rise mP6 the most Taiwanese x86 CPU outside of UMC and VIA.