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Cyrix MXi
Speed: 333 to 350 MHz
What this is for: Low-cost notebooks and desktops
What's nice about this: This is a modified M II chip; This will be the first Cyrix CPU to have AMD's 3Dnow instruction set, also this will be the first time a Cyrix chip will actually be able to handle games, because of the 3Dnow
Problems: Too soon to say
Cyrix M II-400
Speed: 400 MHz
What this is for: Low-cost desktops
What's nice about this: This is a nice chip to put in low price systems, and is a reasonable one for business programs
Problems: Graphical speed is still unknown
Intel PII-533 Katmai
Speed: 533 MHz or faster
What is this for: High end power desktops
What's nice about this: This chip uses the new 820 chip which supports 133 MHZ system bus and memory
Problems: The AMD K7 chip might be faster on some business programs
AMD K7
Speed: 500 MHz or more
What this is for: High end power desktops, workstations, and servers
What's nice about this: This will be AMD's seventh generation chip core; has improved floating point capabilities; has support for a 200 MHz system bus
Problems: Too soon to day
Rise Technology MP6 II
Speed: Most liley 333 or 366 MHz
What this is for: Low-cost desktops then low-cost notebooks in the future
What's nice about this: Has an on-board 256KB secondary cache which should speed up the CPU significantly compared to the original MP 6
Problems: Not sure how good this chip is going to do over AMD, Cyrix, and Intel because this is just a newcomer
Centaur WinChip 2A
Speed: 233, 250, and 260 MHz
What this is for: Low-cost desktops
What's nice about this: VERY low prices, supports a 100 MHz system bus
Problems: Has 64K primary cache, but no secondary cahce, so the effect on the performance is unknown