List of x86 manufacturers
x86-compatible processors have been designed, manufactured and sold by a number of companies, including:
In the past:
- Transmeta (discontinued its x86 line)
- Rise Technology (acquired by SiS, that sold its x86 (embedded) line to DM&P)
- IDT (Centaur Technology x86 division acquired by VIA)
- Cyrix (acquired by National Semiconductor)
- National Semiconductor (sold the x86 PC designs to VIA and later the x86 embedded designs to AMD)
- NexGen (acquired by AMD)
- Chips and Technologies (acquired by Intel)
- Texas Instruments (discontinued its own x86 line)
- IBM (discontinued its own x86 line)
- UMC (discontinued its x86 line)
- NEC (discontinued its x86 line)
- VM Technology[1][2][3] (discontinued its x86 line)
- VIA (discontinued its x86 line)
x86-processors for embedded designs only
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- DM&P Electronics (continues SiS' Vortex86 line)
- ZF Micro ZFx86,[4] Cx486DX SoC
- RDC Semiconductors[5] 486SX compatible RISC core (R8610 and R8620)
- DP Kwazar SP (ДП КВАЗАР-ІС)[6] - As of December 2021, КР1810ВМ86 (Soviet 8086 clone) still appears on Kwazar's price list.[7]
In the past:
- ALi (x86 products went to Nvidia through the ULi sale)
- Nvidia (M6117C - 386SX embedded microcontroller)
- Auctor[8] / ACC Micro[9] - Maple SoC (Cx486DX4[10] core at 100 to 133 MHz)
- Advantech - EVA-X4150 and EVA-X4300 (SoCs with 486SX-compatible processors at 150 MHz and 300 MHz, respectively)[11]
- Innovasic - pin-compatible 80186/80188 clones[12]
- Vadem - VG230 and VG330 (SoCs with NEC V30 CPU cores, manufacturing continued by Amphus)[13]
- SiS (sold its Vortex86 line to DM&P)
- Intersil (x86 line, that is up to 80286 compatible, discontinued)
- VAutomation[14] - offered synthesizable x86 cores, in particular the Turbo 186, that has been implemented in ASICs from numerous vendors, e.g.[15]
- Zoran Corporation: Vaddis 6
- Genesis Microchip Inc: GM1601
- Lantronix: DSTni-EX, DSTni-LX[16]
- Synergetic: EC-1[17]
Open source x86 cores
[edit]- ao486[18] open source FPGA implementation of the 486SX (currently targets the Terasic Altera DE2-115)
- S80186[19] open source 80186 compatible FPGA implementation
- Zet open source 80186 compatible FPGA implementation targeting the Xilinx ML403 and Altera DE1
x86-SoCs for mobile devices
[edit]- Rockchip (Intel SoFIA)
- Spreadtrum (Intel SoFIA)
Manufacturing-only of x86-processors designed by others
[edit]- GlobalFoundries (manufactures processors for AMD)
- IBM (manufactures processors for ZF Micro and VIA; discontinued production for NexGen and Transmeta)
- TSMC (manufactures processors for AMD and VIA; discontinued production for Transmeta)
- Fujitsu (manufactures processors for VIA; manufactured processors for Transmeta)
In the past:
- UMC (manufactured processors for Rise, SiS, ALi, ULi and Nvidia; discontinued x86 production)
- National Semiconductor (manufactured processors for ZF Micro; discontinued x86 production)
- DEC (manufactured 486 processors for AMD; discontinued x86 production)[20]
Manufactured and sold under its own name of x86-processors designed by others
[edit]Early Intel x86 CPU designs (up to the 80286) have in the past been second-sourced by the following manufacturers under licence from Intel:[21][22]
| Manufacturer | 8086/8088 | 80186/80188 | 80286 | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Later developed independent x86 CPU designs. |
| Fujitsu | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Harris Corporation | Yes | No | Yes | |
| IBM | No | No | Yes | |
| Intersil | Yes | No | Yes | Continued to manufacture x86 CPUs after being spun off from Harris in 1999. |
| Matra Harris Semiconductors (MHS) | Yes | No | No | Joint venture between Harris and Matra. |
| Matsushita | Yes | No | No | |
| Mitsubishi | Yes | No | No | |
| NEC | Yes | No | No | Later developed independent x86 CPU designs. |
| OKI | Yes | No | No | |
| Renesas | Yes | No | No | Continued Intersil's 8086/8088 product line after acquiring Intersil in 2017.[23] |
| Rochester Electronics (REI) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Manufactures other vendors' end-of-lifed chips under licence, on a built-to-order basis. |
| Siemens | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Manufacturers that have served as second sources for other x86 CPUs include:
| Manufacturer | Second source of |
|---|---|
| Sharp | NEC V20/V30 |
| Sony | NEC V20/V30 |
| Zilog | NEC V20/V30 |
| IBM | Cyrix 486, 5x86, 6x86, 6x86MX |
| SGS-Thomson | Cyrix 486, 5x86, 6x86 |
| Texas Instruments | Cyrix 486 |
| Rochester Electronics | AMD Élan SC300[24] |
Other/uncategorized
[edit]| Vendor | Product Line | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Montage | Jintide | Pairs Intel Skylake Xeon CPU cores with specially-designed I/O tracing and analysis chips to help provide improved security. Made as a multi-chip module, mainly for use in Chinese servers.[25][26][27] |
| Hygon | Dhyana | AMD/Hygon joint venture, making CPUs based on AMD Zen1 with some modifications for the Chinese market.[28] |
| MCST | Elbrus 2000 | Russian VLIW processor family, designed to run x86 code using dynamic binary translation. |
| Space Electronics Inc. / Maxwell | 80386DXRP | Intel 386 CPUs repackaged in special radiation-hardened packages for use in space.[29][30] |
| Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt | U80601 | East Germany 80286 clone, made in 1989-1990. |
| Eagle Memories,[31] MC[32] |
486DLC | OEM rebranded variants of Cyrix 486DLC CPUs. |
| Mitsubishi | Straker[33] | Intel SmartDie[34] based products, packaging an Intel-provided CPU die in OEM-specific packages, mainly for use in ultracompact laptops. |
| Fujitsu | (Pentium)[35] |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ CBR, KAY NISHI’s VM TECHNOLOGY HAS 80386-COMPATIBLE CHIP… (May 4, 1988)
- ^ N. Komatsu, VM8600SP (in Japanese)
- ^ OASYS LX-4500 (in Japanese) - laptop using the VM867S CPU
- ^ http://www.zfmicro.com/zfx86.html ZFx86 486 PC-in-a-Chip
- ^ http://www.rdc.com.tw/ RDC Semiconductors
- ^ DP Kwazar SP
- ^ Price list of DP KWAZAR-IS from 01.12.2021
- ^ Auctor Corp, Single-Chip Maple engine for Windows CE
- ^ ACC Micro, Maple Processor for Embedded Control and Embedded Computing Applications
- ^ CPU Galaxy, "486 SBC, Benchmark & Dos Gaming on a Vintage Single Board Computer" on YouTube
- ^ Advantech, x86-based SoC, archived on Feb 27, 2010
- ^ Innovasic, Product Literature, archived on Aug 11, 2018
- ^ Amphus Inc, System-on-a-chip products
- ^ VAutomation Inc, Products, archived on Oct 2, 2000
- ^ The CPUShack Museum, The Intel 80186 Gets Turbocharged – VAutomation Turbo186
- ^ GridConnect, LX-001
- ^ Control Engineering, Synergetic launches EC-1 system-on-chip
- ^ https://opencores.org/project,ao486 ao486 at OpenCores
- ^ "Jamie Iles - Software + Hardware | S80186 CPU".
- ^ Microprocessor Report (vol.9, no.1, Jan 23, 1995), "Shift To Pentium Begins In Earnest", pg. 4
- ^ X86 CPU's Guide
- ^ CPU Galerie - Prozessoren
- ^ Renesas, 80C88 CMOS 8-/16-Bit Microprocessor. Accessed on Sep 3, 2023. Archived on Jan 18, 2021.
- ^ Rochester Electronics, Elan SC300-33KC-G
- ^ Ao Luo, Jintide® : A Hardware Security Enhanced Server CPU, HotChips 31, Aug 20, 2019
- ^ Montage, Jintide CPU. Archived on Nov 13, 2020.
- ^ TechRadar, Intel and AMD shouldn’t panic yet, but this Chinese vendor has repacked a Xeon CPU, May 25, 2020
- ^ AnandTech, Testing a Chinese x86 CPU: A Deep Dive into Zen-based Hygon Dhyana Processors, Feb 27, 2020
- ^ Space Electronics Inc, Radiation Hardened 80386DXRP
- ^ Maxwell Technologies, 80386DX Microprocessor, 32-bit, archived on Dec 5, 2008
- ^ The CPUShack Museum, Eagle Memories gallery
- ^ CPU-World, MC 80386 microprocessor family
- ^ x86 CPU's Guide, Mitsubishi Straker. Accessed on Sep 3, 2023. Archived on Sep 3, 2023.
- ^ Intel, SmartDie® products. Archived from the original on Feb 24, 1998.
- ^ x86 CPU's Guide, Fujitsu Pentium 133. Accessed on Sep 3, 2023. Archived on Feb 8, 2023.