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**Quote style:
To avoid  thousands of quote marks  and colliding with quote  marks in
the  text, I  have used  a modified  quotation style.   Anything in  a
section  titled "Info:"  or "Features:"  is a  quote from  a datasheet
unless otherwised stated in that  section.  In these sections anything
inside  [] is  an  annotation and  not part  of  the datasheet  unless
otherwise stated in that section.

Under any other section, the text is my own unless indicated with "".

Also  this document  does not  contain the  entire datasheet  for each
chip, usually only the first few pages are included to give an outline
of it. Some datasheets are 100s of pages other are only 1.

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**Why this document is not GPL or a wiki...
**Definition of a chip set:...
**'chip set', 'chip-set' or 'chipset'?...
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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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*AMD . . . . . . . [no datasheets, some info]...
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*Contaq  . . . . . [no datasheets, some info]...
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**800 series
***810         (Whitney)       04/26/99...
***810L        (Whitney)       04/26/99...
***810-DC100   (Whitney)       04/26/99...
***810e        (Whitney)       09/27/99...
***810e2       (Whitney)       01/03/01...
***815         (Solano)        06/19/00...
***815e        (Solano-2)      06/19/00...
***815em       (Solano-?)      10/23/00...
***815ep       (Solano-3)      c:Nov'00...
***815p        (Solano-3)      c:Mar'01...
***815g        (Solano-3)      c:Sep'01...
***815eg       (Solano-3)      c:Sep'01...
***820         (Camino)        11/15/99...
***820e        (Camino-2)      06/05/00...
***830M        (Almador)       07/30/01...
***830MP       (Almador)       07/30/01...
***830MG       (Almador)       07/30/01...
***840         (Carmel)        10/25/99...
***845         (Brookdale)     09/10/01...
***845MP       (Brookdale-M)   03/04/02...
***845MZ       (Brookdale-M)   03/04/02...
***845E        (Brookdale-E)   05/20/02...
***845G        (Brookdale-G)   05/20/02...
***845GL       (Brookdale-GL)  05/20/02...
***845GE       (Brookdale-GE)  10/07/02...
***845PE       (Brookdale-PE)  10/07/02...
***845GV       (Brookdale-GV)  10/07/02...
***848P        (Breeds Hill)   c:Aug'03...
***850         (Tehama)        11/20/00...
***850E        (Tehama-E)      05/06/02...
***852GM       (Montara-GM)    01/14/03...
***852GMV      (Montara-GM)    ???...
***852PM       (Montara-GM)    06/11/03...
***852GME      (Montara-GM)    06/11/03...
***854         (?)             04/11/05...
***855GM       (Montara-GM)    03/12/03...
***855GME      (Montara-GM)    03/12/03...
***855PM       (Odem)          03/12/03...
***860         (Colusa)        05/21/01...
***865G        (Springdale)    05/21/03...
***865PE       (Springdale-PE) 05/21/03...
***865P        (Springdale-P)  05/21/03...
***865GV       (Springdale-GV) c:Sep'03...
***875P        (Canterwood)    04/14/03...
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