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Early chip sets have  a title and a part no. to refer  to the chip set
as a  whole. As time went  on the chip  set became one chip,  so later
chip sets are usually referred to by  the part no. on the actual chip.
These are  usually called "Single  Chip" by the  manufacture, although
they nearly  always follow the 2-chip  North/South-bridge paradigm. So
these are referred to by for example, "M1521/M1523" or "M1521/M23" for
short. If there is a part number for  the chip set as a whole that has
precedence. Try the search function for  a chip part no. and hopefully
it will turn up the chip set it was part of.

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**82497/492   Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P54 Pentium)    <Nov94
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**82498/493   Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P54 Pentium)    <Nov94...
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**Later chipsets (basic spec):
**440 series:...
**450NX  (?)            06/29/98:...
**?????  (Profusion)    c:99...
**800 series...
*Headland/G2...
**HT18          80386SX Single Chip                            c:Sep91
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***Configurations:...
***Features:
o   Highly Integrated, Single Chip 80386SX AT Compatible Solution
o   Special Multiple Context Hardware EMS Support (LIM 4.0 compatible) 
    using 2 sets of 32 EMS Registers
o   Single or Dual BIOS
o   Shadow RAM support over entire C0000 to DFFFF Address range in 16K 
    increments, E0000 to FFFFF in 64K increments
o   Page Mode and 2-way Interleaving
o   Supports up to 12MHz AT Bus Clock
o   High Performance Muxed DRAM Interleave
o   Programmable DRAM timing
o   Asynchronous AT Bus Clock
o   Three-State Test Mode
o   16-Bit ROM BIOS Support

HT 18A/B Special Features
o   16 and 20 MHz CPU Clock Speeds
o   Supports up to 8M CPU Memory using combinations of 64K, 256K and 
    1M Devices
o   4 Bank, 4-way Interleave Mode

HT18C/25MHz Special Features
o   16, 20 and 25MHz CPU Clock Speeds
o   Supports up to 20M with EMS CPU Memory using combinations of 256K, 
    1M and 4M Devices

**HT21          386SX/286 Single Chip (20 MHz)                 c:Aug91...
**HT22          386SX/286 Single Chip (25 MHz)                 c:Sep91...
**HT25          3-volt Core Logic for 386SX                    c:Dec92...
**HT35          Single-Chip Peripheral Controller [partial info]     ?...
**HTK320        386DX Chip Set                                 c:Sep91...
**HTK340        "Shasta" 486 Chip Set                          c:Jun92...
**Support Chips:
**HT44          Secondary Cache                                c:Jun92...
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