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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....
**Datasheets:...
*_IBM...
*ACC Micro...
*ALD...
*ALi...
*AMD . . . . . . . [no datasheets, some info]...
*Chips & Technologies...
**82C110   IBM PS/2 Model 30/Super XT                                ?
***Notes:...
***Info:...
***Configurations:...
***Features:...
**82C235   Single Chip AT (SCAT)                                   c89...
**82C836   Single Chip 386sx (SCATsx)                              <91...
**F8680/A  PC/CHIP Single-Chip PC                                  c93...
**
**Support Chips:
**64200    (Wingine) High Performance 'Windows Engine'         c:Oct91...
**82C206   Integrated Peripheral Controller                        c86...
**82C601/A Single Chip Peripheral Controller                 <08/30/90...
**82C607   Multifunction Controller                             <Jun88...
**82C710   Universal Peripheral Controller                     c:Aug90...
**82C711   Universal Peripheral Controller II                  c:Jan91...
**82C712   Universal Peripheral Controller II                  c:Jan91...
**82C721   Universal Peripheral Controller III                 c:May93...
**82C735   I/O Peripheral Controller With Printgine            c:Jul93...
**82C835   Single CHIP 386sx AT Cache Controller               c:Apr91...
**F87000   Multi-Mode Peripheral Chip                         11/23/93...
**Other:...
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**Video:...
*Contaq  . . . . . [no datasheets, some info]...
**82C599    PCI-VLB Bridge [no datasheet, some info]                 ?

82C599 PCI-VLB Bridge referenced in:
http://web.mit.edu/netbsd/src/sys/dev/pci/pcidevs

from:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050313090427/http://www.os2forum.or.at/english/info/os2hardwareinfo/pci_chips.html

"The Contaq Chipset (Contaq: 1080/4224) (8/27/95)

The Contaq 82C599  is paired with one of  their 486VL chipsets (82C596
or  82C597) and  bridges directly  from the  486 CPU  to the  PCI bus.
Paraphrased from the Contaq spec.:

The  82C596 system  controller provides  the CPU  interface,  VESA bus
interface, ISA bus controller, etc. The 82C599 PCI controller provides
the bridge  between PCI master/slave  agent and the  ISA/VESA standard
expansion  bus; it arbitrates  all the  bus transactions  between host
CPU, PCI agent, VESA device, and ISA device.

(Which sounds to me like the PCI bus is attached to the VL bus, rather
than to the CPU, which will cause PCI performance degradation.)"

**82C693    PCI-ISA Bridge [no datasheet]                            ?...
*Efar Microsystems [no datasheets, some info]...
*ETEQ...
*Faraday...
*Forex . . . . . . [List only, no datasheets found]...
*Intel...
*Headland/G2...
*HMC (Hulon Microelectronics)...
*Logicstar...
*Motorola...
*OPTi...
*PC CHIPS/Amptron/Atrend/ECS/Elpina/etc...
*SIS...
**85C310/320/330 'Rabbit' High performance 386DX chipset           <91
***Info:...
***Configurations:...
***Features:...
**85C360         ISA 386DX Single Chip chipset [no datasheet]        ?...
**85C401/402     ISA 486DX/SX Cache chipset    [no datasheet]        ?...
**85C406/5/411/420/431  EISA 386/486 Chipset   [no datasheet]      c91...
**85C460         ISA 386DX/486 Single Chip     [no datasheet]        ?
**85C461         ISA 386DX/486 Single Chip     [no datasheet]        ?...
**85C471/407     Green PC ISA-VLB 486 Single Chip                  <94...
**85C496/497     486-VIP 486 Green PC VESA/ISA/PCI Chipset         <95...
**85C501/502/503 Pentium/P54C PCI/ISA Chipset                <01/09/95...
**5101/5102/5103 Pentium/P54C PCI/ISA Chipset                <04/02/95...
**5120           Pentium PCI/ISA Chipset (Mobile)            <01/28/97...
**5501/5502/5503 Pentium/P54C PCI/ISA Chipset                <04/02/95...
**5511/5512/5513 Pentium PCI/ISA                             <06/14/95...
**5571           (Trinity) Pentium PCI/ISA Chipset (75MHz)   <12/09/96...
**5581/5582      (Jessie)  Pentium PCI/ISA Chipset (75MHz)   <04/15/97...
**5591/5592/5595 (David)   Pentium PCI A.G.P. Chipset        <01/09/98...
**5596/5513      (Genesis) Pentium PCI Chipset               <03/26/96...
**5597/5598      (Jedi)    Pentium PCI/ISA Chipset           <04/15/97...
**530/5595       (Sinbad) Host, PCI, 3D Graphics & Mem. Ctrl.<11/10/98...
**540            (Spartan) Super7 2D/3D Ultra-AGP Single C.S.<11/30/99...
**55x            SoC (System-on-chip)                        <03/14/02...
**
**Support chips:
**85C206     Integrated Peripheral Controller [no datasheet]         ?...
**5595       Pentium PCI System I/O                          <12/24/97...
**950        LPC I/O                                         <07/16/99...
**Other:...
**PII/III/Pro...
**Athlon etc...
*Symphony...
**SL82C360   'Haydn' 80386DX/SX chipset [no datasheet]         c:Jun91...
**SL82C460   'Haydn II' 80486 chipset   [no datasheet]         c:Jun91...
**SL82C470   'Mozart' 486/386 EISA chipset                     c:Dec91...
**SL82C490   'Wagner' 486?              [no datasheet]               ?...
**SL82C550   'Rossini' Pentium          [no datasheet]            c:95...
**
**Support Chips:
**SL82C365    Cache Controller (for 386DX/SX)                     c:91...
**SL82C465    Cache Controller (for 486/386DX/SX)                 c:91...
*TI (Texas Instruments)...
**SN74LS610/2 IBM AT: SN74LS610, SN74LS612 Memory Mappers          <84...
**TACT82000   3-Chip 286 [no datasheet]                            c89...
**TACT82411   Snake  Single-Chip AT Controller                     c90...
**TACT82S411  Snake+ Single-Chip AT Controller [no datasheet]      c91...
**TACT83000   AT 'Tiger' Chip Set (386)                            c89...
**TACT84500   AT Chip Set (486, EISA) [no datasheet, some info]    c91...
**Other:...
*UMC...
**UM82C***     (IBM/INTEL Direct replacement)                      c87...
**UM82C088     PC/XT Integration Chip                              <91...
**UM82C230     286AT MORTAR Chip Set                               <91...
**UM82C210     386SX/286 AT Chip Set                               <91...
**UM82C3xx     Twinstar & UM82C336F/N & UM82C39x [no datasheet]      ?...
**UM82C380     386 HEAT PC/AT Chip Set                             <91...
**UM82C480     386/486 PC Chip Set                                 c91...
**UM82C493/491 ??????????????? [no datasheet]                        ?...
**UM8498/8496  486 VL Chipset  "Super Energy Star Green"[no dsheet]c94...
**UM8881/8886  HB4 PCI Chipset "Super Energy Star Green"[no dsheet]c94...
**UM8890       Pentium chipset [no datasheet]                        ?...
**
**Support Chips:
**UM82152      Cache Controller (AUStek A38152 clone)              <91...
**UM82C852     Multi I/O For XT                                    <91...
**UM82C206     Integrated Peripheral Controller                    <91...
**UM82c45x     Serial/Parallel chips                                 ?...
**Other chips:...
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**SL9XXX   FlexSet family General information...
**SL9011   System Controller (80286/80386SX/DX, 16/20/25MHz)    <Jan90
***Info:...
***Versions:...
***Features:...
**SL9020   Data Controller                                      <Jan90...
**SL9025   Address Controller                                   <Jan90...
**SL9030   Integrated Peripheral Controller                     <Jan90...
**SL9090/A Universal PC/AT Clock Chip                           <oct88...
**SL9095   Power  Management Unit                                    ?...
**SL9151   80286 Page Interleave Memory Controller (16-25MHz)        ?...
**SL9250   80386SX Page Mode Memory Controller (16/20MHz 8MB)        ?...
**SL9251   80386SX Page Interleave Memory Controller         <04/13/90...
**SL9252   80386SX System and Memory Controller              <06/12/90...
**SL9350   80386DX Page Mode Memory Controller (16-25MHz 16MB)       ?
***Info:...
***Versions:...
***Features:...
**SL9351   80386DX Page Interleave Memory Controller (33MHz)         ?...
**SL9352   80386DX System and Memory Controller              <06/12/90...
**SLXXXX   Other chips...
**
**VT82C470     "Jupiter", Chip Set (w/o cache) 386 [no datasheet]    ?
**VT82C475     "Jupiter", Chip Set (w/cache) 386   [no datasheet]    ?
**VT82C486/2/3 "GMC chipset"            [no datasheet, some info]    ?...
**VT82C495/480 "Venus" Chip Set                    [no datasheet]    ?
**VT82C495/491 ? EISA Chip Set          [no datasheet, some info]  <93...
**VT82C496G    Pluto, Green PC 80486 PCI/VL/ISA System       <05/30/94...
**VT82C530MV   3.3V Pentium chipset [no datasheet, some info]<05/30/94...
**VT82C570M    Apollo Master, Green Pentium/P54C             <06/22/95...
**VT82C580VP   Apollo VP,  Pentium/M1/K5 PCI/ISA System      <02/15/96...
**VT82C580VPX  Apollo VPX, VPX/97, Pentium with 66/75MHz Bus <01/09/97...
**VT82C590     Apollo VP2, VP2/97, Single-Chip Pentium 66MHz <01/10/97...
**VT82C597/AT  Apollo VP3, Single-Chip for Pentium with AGP  <10/03/97...
**VT82C598MVP  Apollo MVP3,Single-Chip 66/75/83/100MHz & AGP <09/22/97...
**VT8501       Apollo MVP4,Single-Chip 66-100MHz & AGP       <11/04/98...
**VT82C680     Apollo P6, Pentium-Pro Chip Set               <08/30/96...
**Support chips:
**VT82C505     Pentium/486 VL to PCI Bridge                  <05/30/94...
**VT82C586/A/B PCI Integrated Peripheral Controller          <10/13/96...
**VT82C596/A   Mobile PCI Integrated Peripheral Controller   <11/05/97...
**VT82C686A/B  PCI Super-I/O Integrated Peripheral Ctrl.     <02/10/98...
**Later P-Pro/II/III/Celeron...
**Later AMD...
**Other...
*VLSI...
*Western Digital...
*Winbond...
*ZyMOS...
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