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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...
**ACC2268 ?486 [no datasheet] ?
***Configurations:...
**ACC???? Maple/Maple-133 486-System-On-Chip [no datasheet] ?...
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**Support Chips:
**ACC2016 Buffer and MUX Logic c96...
**ACC2020 Power Management Chip c92...
**ACC5500 Multifunction I/O Control Chip for PS2 Model 50/60 c88...
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**Other chips...
*ALD...
*ALi...
*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...
*Headland/G2...
*HMC (Hulon Microelectronics)...
*Logicstar...
*Motorola...
*OPTi...
*PC CHIPS/Amptron/Atrend/ECS/Elpina/etc...
**Later Chipsets:
Info sourced from the very useful plasma-online.de:
http://www.plasma-online.de/index.html?content=http%3A//www.plasma-online.de/english/identify/picture/pcchips.html
Chipset name | OEM of | used on mainboard
---------------+---------------------------+-----------------------------------------
HX Pro | ALi M1521/M1523 |
SX Pro | SiS 530/5595 | M598
AGP Pro PC-100 | VIA VT82C598AT/VT82C596B | M577
TX AGP Pro | SiS 5591/5595/6326 |
TX Two | ALi M1531/M1543 |
TX Pro | ALi M1531/M1543 | M560, M575
TX Pro II | SiS 5597/5598 | M571
TX Pro III | VIA VT82C580VPX/VT82C586B | M573
TX Pro IV | SiS 5591/5592 | M570
Top Gun | ALi Aladdin IV+ | M565
VIA GRA | VIA VT8501/VT82C596B | M858LMR
VX Pro | VIA VT82C580VP/VT82C586B |
VX Pro + | VIA VT82C580VPX/VT82C586B |
VX Pro II | UTron / HiNT UT801X |
VX two | VIA VT82C580VP/VT82C586B | Amptron PM-8600A
VX two | VIA VT82C580VPX/VT82C586B | Amptron PM-8600B
BXToo | VIA Apollo Pro | M760V, M761V
BXToo | VIA VT82C693/VT82C686A | M767V
BXPro | SiS 600/5595 | M747
BXCel | ALi M1621/M1543 | M726, M729
BXpert | VIA VT82C691/VT82C596 |
BXTel | VIA Apollo Pro | M730
Xcel 2000 | SiS 620/5595 | M741LMRT
Super TX | SiS 5597/5598 | ASUS SP97-V, SP98-N, Jetway J-TX98R2
Super TX | ALi M1531/M1543 |
Super TX | ALi M1541/M1543 | Biostar M5ALA, M5ALC, Pionex MBD-P5ABx
Super TX3 | SiS 5571 |
Super TX4 AGP | |
GFXcel | SiS 630 |
GFXpro | ALi M1631/M1535D |
T-Bird | SiS730S | M810
---------------+---------------------------+----------------------------------------
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**SL9XXX FlexSet family General information
The SL9XXX series seems to have been designed to work with the 80286,
80386SX and 80386DX, and is possibly compatible with the 80486. What-
ever CPU used, the chipset contains the following chips, known as the
"Core AT Logic chips":
SL9011 System Controller
SL9020 Data Controller (2x for 32bit 386DX)
SL9025 Address Controller
SL9030 Integrated Peripheral Controller
The memory controller is then selected based on the CPU. It appears
that the lineup originally consisted of the following chips, known as
"Personalized AT Logic":
SL9151 Page Interleave Memory (80286)
SL9250 Memory Controller (80386SX)
SL9350 Page Mode Memory Controller (80386DX)
Later updates were:
SL9251 Page Interleave Memory Controller (80386SX)
SL9351 Page Interleave Memory Controller (80386DX)
Further updates were:
SL9252 System and Memory Controller (80386SX)
SL9352 System and Memory Controller (80386DX)
As far as i can tell, these chips only require the addition of the
SL9020, or 2x in the case of the SL9352. The datasheets are quite
terse.
These parts and the whole design of the datasheets are very similar to
the chipsets released by Logicstar. I, however, cannot find any record
of a link between the companies. See *Logicstar for details.
**SL9011 System Controller (80286/80386SX/DX, 16/20/25MHz) <Jan90
***Info:...
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**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...
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**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...
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