The Untold Story of WinChip — The CPU That Was Killed by a Video Game

In 1997, a tiny Austin Texas company called Centaur Technology built the smallest x86 processor in the world. Smaller than Intel's. Smaller than AMD's. Smaller than everyone's. It ran Windows software just fine. Word processors, spreadsheets, everything ordinary people actually did on a PC. Magazine reviewers who tested it came away genuinely impressed by how much performance you got for how little money. Then someone opened Quake. #winchip #centaurcpu #processorhistory #quake #techhistory #retrotechnology #x86history #budgetpc #idsoft #glennhenry #via #techbutwhy #cpuhistory #retrocomputing