Acceptance of its 6×86 Pentium-class microprocessor is so far behind what Richardson, Texas-based Cyrix Corp had been hoping that the company is making the high-risk gambit of building personal computers around the chip itself – or rather designing them and commissioning Electronic Data Systems Corp to manufacture them. The General Motors Corp subsidiary is not the first company that springs to mind when it comes to the manufacturing of personal computers, but the company did start assembling its own personal computers at its Plano, Texas base way back in August 1993 in an effort to cut costs a little. The Cyrix initiative is for the long term and it has given Electronic Data Systems a five-year contract. The machines will be sold under the Cyrix brand name, and the aim is to win name recognition for the company rather than to create another personal computer powerhouse.
