Cyrix is transforming its whole production lines to make a series of low-cost processors . The Santa Clara, Calif., company is also working on processors that include 1394, DVD technology, MPEG decompression and Ethernet. DSP and RISC engines would improve the performance of audio processing, three-dimensional graphics and MPEG decompression, without the extra cost of adding those functions separately through hardware or software acceleration. National has signed up two PC makers to use its first integrated processor. The company tentatively plans to have one corporate chip brand and one consumer brand, but those details are still being ironed out.
National officials say their company has all the pieces required to change that.