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**Who made the first chip set?
By the  criteria of (2.)  in  'Definition of a chip  set' many sources
state this  to be the  Chips and Technologies  NEAT chip set.  I don't
know why this is stated as it is most definitely incorrect. The CS8221
NEW   Enhanced  AT   (NEAT)  chip   set  consisting   of  the   chips;
82C211/82C212/82C215/82C206  was  as far  as  I  can establish,  first
released sometime in 1986. 

C&T itself have an earlier chip set called the CS8220 PC/AT compatible
Chip  Set,  and  consists   of  the  following  chips;  82C201/82C202/
82A203/82A204/82A205.  It was  first  available  in OCT-85.  (see:C&T>
CS8220>Notes for further info.)

That is, AFAIK, the first motherboard  chip set from C&T and AFAIK the
worlds first chip set that meets the criteria of (2.). However C&T did
already have on the market their  popular EGA chip set, but that isn't
a motherboard chip set.

By the criteria of (1.), IBM, or Intel, see IBM>PC/XT chip set.

Another pre-'86 chipset is the  Faraday FE2010. The datasheet includes
a schematic on the very last  page dated 11/22/85. This only indicates
the chip set was on paper at that date. An acutal release date has not
been found.

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**A note on VESA support of 486 chipsets.
Many chipsets state  that they support VESA local  bus.  In some cases
these actually  implement VLB somewhat  like PCI, where it  is entirly
decoupled from the CPU bus. Chipsets  that do not state they work with
VLB,  may  be found  on  motherboards  that  contain VLB  slots.   VLB
is  *basically*  The 486  CPU  pinout in  a  slot  form. Unless  these
m/boards contain  some additional  chips, there VLB  implementation is
directly coupled to the CPU.

**Datasheets:...
*_IBM...
*ACC Micro...
*ALD...
*ALi...
**M1521/23       Aladdin III       50-66MHz                     <Nov96
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***Configurations:...
***Features:...
**M1531/33/43    Aladdin IV & IV+  50-83.3MHz                <05/28/97...
**M1541/42/33/43 Aladdin V & V+    50-100MHz                         ?...
**M1561/43/35D   Aladdin 7 ArtX    [no datasheet, some info]  11/08/99...
**M6117          386SX Single Chip PC                              <97...
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**Support Chips:
**M1535/D        South Bridge                                        ?...
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**May not exist:...
**Later Chipsets:...
**Other:
M2228 	Video
M2301 	Video
M2302 	Video
M2308 	Video
M2401 	Video
M3125 	Video
M3135 	Video (super VGA)
M3143 	Video
M3145 	PCI Video
M3145 	VLB/PCI 3D Video
M3147V 	PCI Video
M3149 	Video
M3151 	PCI 3D Video, 4MB MAX
M3307   MPEG    Video Decoder Chip
M3309   MPEG-II Video Decoder Chip
M3321   MPEG-II A/V Decoder Chip
M3351   MPEG-II Video Decoder Chip
M4803 	PCI EIDE Controller
M5105 	VLB Super I/O Controller FDD/HDD/LPT/2xCOM/GAME	 
M5113   Superset of 5105, with PnP, ECP/EPP LPT and IR port
M5119 	Super I/O
M5123 	Super I/O   PnP/2xCOM/IR port/Keyboard (For Phoenix BIOS)
M5125 	same as  M5123 but for AMI
M513? 	Super I/O PnP/Keyboard
M5135F 	Super I/O PnP/Keyboard/IR
M514? 	Super I/O PnP/Keyboard/IR/2xCOM/  
M5213 	PCI IDE
M5217/H	Super I/O
M5219 	PCI? Bus mastering EIDE
M5225 	PCI? EIDE
M5229 	PCI? Bus mastering EIDE
M5235 	Super I/O
M5237 	PCI USB Host
M5240 	PCI? EIDE
M5241 	PCMCIA Bridge
M5242 	? 
M5244 	FDD
M5427 	PCI-AGP Bridge
M5451 	Audio 
M5453 	Modem 
M5455 	Audio  

*AMD . . . . . . . [no datasheets, some info]...
*Chips & Technologies...
*Contaq  . . . . . [no datasheets, some info]...
*Efar Microsystems [no datasheets, some info]...
*ETEQ...
*Faraday...
*Forex . . . . . . [List only, no datasheets found]...
*Intel...
**440 series:
***440FX (Natoma)       05/06/96...
***440LX (Balboa)       08/27/97...
***440BX (Seattle)      c:Apr'98...
***440DX (?)            c:?...
***440EX (?)            c:Apr'98...
***440GX (Marlinespike) 06/29/98...
***440ZX & 440ZX-66 (?) 01/04/99...
***440ZX-M (?)          05/17/99...
***440MX (Banister)     05/17/99...
**450NX  (?)            06/29/98:...
**?????  (Profusion)    c:99...
**800 series...
*Headland/G2...
*HMC (Hulon Microelectronics)...
*Logicstar...
*Motorola...
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*PC CHIPS/Amptron/Atrend/ECS/Elpina/etc...
*SIS...
*Symphony...
*TI (Texas Instruments)...
*UMC...
*Unresearched:...
*VIA...
*VLSI...
*Western Digital...
*Winbond...
*ZyMOS...
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