List of x86 manufacturers

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Manufacturers

x86-compatible processors have been designed, manufactured and sold by a number of companies, including:

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x86-processors for regular PCs

In the past:

x86-processors for embedded designs only

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Auctor Maple SoC

In the past:

Open source x86 cores

x86-SoCs for mobile devices

Manufacturing-only of x86-processors designed by others

In the past:

Manufactured and sold under its own name of x86-processors designed by others

Early Intel x86 CPU designs (up to the 80286) have in the past been second-sourced by the following manufacturers under licence from Intel: [21] [22]

Manufacturer8086/808880186/8018880286Notes
AMD YesYesYesLater developed independent x86 CPU designs.
Fujitsu YesYesYes
Harris Corporation YesNoYes
IBM NoNoYes
Intersil YesNoYesContinued to manufacture x86 CPUs after being spun off from Harris in 1999.
Matra Harris Semiconductors (MHS)YesNoNoJoint venture between Harris and Matra.
Matsushita YesNoNo
Mitsubishi YesNoNo
NEC YesNoNoLater developed independent x86 CPU designs.
OKI YesNoNo
Renesas YesNoNoContinued Intersil's 8086/8088 product line after acquiring Intersil in 2017. [23]
Rochester Electronics (REI)YesYesYesManufactures other vendors' end-of-lifed chips under licence, on a built-to-order basis.
Siemens YesYesYes

Manufacturers that have served as second sources for other x86 CPUs include:

ManufacturerSecond source of
Sharp NEC V20/V30
Sony NEC V20/V30
Zilog NEC V20/V30
IBM Cyrix 486, 5x86, 6x86, 6x86MX
SGS-Thomson Cyrix 486, 5x86, 6x86
Texas Instruments Cyrix 486
Rochester Electronics AMD Élan SC300 [24]

Other/uncategorized

VendorProduct LineDescription
MontageJintidePairs Intel Skylake Xeon CPU cores with specially-designed I/O tracing and analysis chips to help provide improved security. Made as a multi-chip module, mainly for use in Chinese servers. [25] [26] [27]
Hygon DhyanaAMD/Hygon joint venture, making CPUs based on AMD Zen1 with some modifications for the Chinese market. [28]
MCST Elbrus 2000 Russian VLIW processor family, designed to run x86 code using dynamic binary translation.
Space Electronics Inc. / Maxwell 80386DXRPIntel 386 CPUs repackaged in special radiation-hardened packages for use in space. [29] [30]
Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt U80601 East Germany 80286 clone, made in 1989-1990.
Eagle Memories, [31]
MC [32] 		486DLCOEM rebranded variants of Cyrix 486DLC CPUs.
MitsubishiStraker [33] Intel SmartDie [34] based products, packaging an Intel-provided CPU die in OEM-specific packages, mainly for use in ultracompact laptops.
Fujitsu(Pentium) [35]

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