On Saturday, September 13, 2014 11:32:24 PM UTC+8, Flasherly wrote:

Weren't they at one point Cyrix from pre-X586 (Pentium pin sockets),

aka 486 processors -- a merger/acquisition of the two?

VIA took over Cyrix and IDT, who both made x86 CPUs.
A few years later, Intel did not renew their license for socket 370.
Seemed rather petty to me, as VIA CPUs were no threat to Intel at all.