Umm, what makes you think Cyrix wants to advertise this fact?
Try this: look at http://www.intel.com/ at the Pentium specs.
Among them you will see that certain info is _NOT_ publically
available about the Pentium's "special" features - you can sign
an NDA to get the info though.
If another company was to copy this stuff to make a 100% Pentium
compatible chip, you can bet the Intel lawyers would have a field day.
Intel did this on purpose (and used the name 'Pentium' which they can
trademark - you can't trademark numbers) to protect themselves. They
don't want to "just squeak by" in an infringement suit (like they did
with with the 386 and AMD - Intel won their 486 battles, though it
was a long hard fight).
So it is impossible to make a Pentium(Pro) clone, but you _can_
make a faster "mostly compatible" processor Like Cyrix has done.
Note: Intel is a pussycat compared to Nintendo when it comes to
protecting their business (monopoly)...it is _impossible_ for
another non-Nintendo party to make a game for Nintendo equipment
(a special, simple yet vital cicuit is required, and the design
details are secured by iron-clad legal protection). The last company
that tried to beat the system had 600 laywers on their back in a flash.
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