<s>
Cyrix	B-Device
III	I-Device
is	O
an	O
x86-compatible	O
Socket	B-Device
370	I-Device
CPU	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cyrix	B-Device
III	I-Device
was	O
to	O
be	O
based	O
upon	O
a	O
core	O
from	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
two	O
companies	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Cyrix	B-Device
III	I-Device
was	O
launched	O
in	O
late	O
February	O
2000	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
650	O
and	O
677	O
MHz	O
versions	O
of	O
the	O
Cyrix	B-Device
III	I-Device
were	O
available	O
starting	O
January	O
of	O
2001	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
700	O
MHz	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
Cyrix	B-Device
III	I-Device
was	O
available	O
on	O
January	O
19	O
,	O
2001	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Just	O
a	O
month	O
later	O
in	O
February	O
2001	O
,	O
Cyrix	B-Device
III	I-Device
chips	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
Samuel	O
2	O
core	O
were	O
announced	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
pre-release	O
Cyrix	B-Device
III	I-Device
CPUs	O
were	O
based	O
upon	O
a	O
22	O
million	O
transistor	O
Joshua	O
core	O
designed	O
by	O
Cyrix	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
CPU	B-General_Concept
core	O
was	O
a	O
typical	O
Cyrix	O
design	O
:	O
superscalar	B-General_Concept
with	O
speculative	B-General_Concept
execution	I-General_Concept
and	O
a	O
high	O
IPC	O
rate	O
but	O
rather	O
low	O
clock	O
rates	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
floating	B-Algorithm
point	I-Algorithm
unit	O
of	O
the	O
processor	O
had	O
supposedly	O
been	O
updated	O
from	O
the	O
lacklustre	O
unit	O
in	O
the	O
6x86/MII	O
series	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
When	O
the	O
chip	O
reached	O
reviewers	O
,	O
the	O
weighted	O
integer/floating	O
-point	O
performance	O
was	O
found	O
to	O
be	O
fairly	O
low	O
compared	O
to	O
the	O
competition	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Samuel	O
core	O
was	O
a	O
simpler	O
design	O
,	O
being	O
an	O
evolution	O
of	O
the	O
WinChip	B-Device
processors	O
(	O
the	O
unreleased	O
WinChip	B-Device
4	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
this	O
version	O
of	O
Cyrix	B-Device
III	I-Device
still	O
had	O
sub-par	O
performance	O
compared	O
to	O
the	O
competition	O
from	O
Intel	O
and	O
AMD	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
quite	O
power	O
efficient	O
and	O
consisted	O
of	O
only	O
half	O
the	O
number	O
of	O
transistors	O
of	O
Cyrix	O
's	O
creation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
?	O
C3-650A0	O
,	O
155215.2370CPGA1.60650	O
MHz100	O
MHz128	O
KB64	O
KB	O
?	O
</s>
<s>
?	O
C3-677A0	O
,	O
155215.2370CPGA1.602.5677	O
MHz133	O
MHz128	O
KB64	O
KB	O
?	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Cyrix	B-Device
III	I-Device
was	O
later	O
renamed	O
C3	B-Device
,	O
as	O
it	O
was	O
not	O
built	O
upon	O
Cyrix	O
technology	O
at	O
all	O
.	O
</s>
