List of x86 manufacturers
Manufacturers
x86-compatible processors have been designed, manufactured and sold by a number of companies, including:
x86-processors for regular PCs
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)
- IBM (discontinued its own x86 line)
- UMC (discontinued its x86 line)
- NEC (discontinued its x86 line)
x86-processors for embedded designs only
- DM&P Electronics (continues SiS' Vortex86 line)
- ZF Micro ZFx86,[1] Cx486DX SoC
- RDC Semiconductors[2] 486SX compatible RISC core (R8610 and R8620)
- ao486[3] open source FPGA implementation of the 486SX (currently targets the Terasic Altera DE2-115)
- S80186[4] open source 80186 compatible FPGA implementation
In the past:
- ALi (x86 products went to Nvidia through the ULi sale)
- Nvidia (M6117C - 386SX embedded microcontroller)
- SiS (sold its Vortex86 line to DM&P)
- Zet open source 80186 compatible FPGA implementation targeting the Xilinx ML403 and Altera DE1
- Intersil (x86 line, that is up to 80286 compatible, discontinued)
x86-SoCs for mobile devices
- Rockchip (Intel SoFIA)
- Spreadtrum (Intel SoFIA)
Manufacturing-only of x86-processors designed by others
- 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)
Manufactured and sold under its own name of x86-processors designed by others
In the past:
- IBM (designs by Cyrix; discontinued x86 production)
- SGS-Thomson (designs by Cyrix; discontinued x86 production)
- Texas Instruments (designs by Cyrix; discontinued x86 production)
References
- http://www.zfmicro.com/zfx86.html ZFx86 486 PC-in-a-Chip
- http://www.rdc.com.tw/ RDC Semiconductors
- https://opencores.org/project,ao486 ao486 at OpenCores
- https://www.jamieiles.com/80186/
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