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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...
**M1561/43/35D Aladdin 7 ArtX [no datasheet, some info] 11/08/99
***Notes:...
***Info & Features:
M1561 Overview
128-bit Super-Socket7 North Bridge for AMD-K6-III with integrated 3D
and Video Highest-performance game playing in a single integrated chip
The M1561 integrates the following functionalities in a Unified Memory
Architecture PC:
o 3-D Graphics
o 2-D Windows Acceleration
o VGA Display Controller
o SDRAM Memory Controller
o PCI Bus Interface
M1561 supports the 66/100/1XX MHz Socket 7 Front Side Bus. It is
System Memory Management (SMM) and Advanced Configuration and Power
Interface Specification (ACPI) compliant.
M1561 uses 66/100/1XX MHz SDRAM with LVTLL input/output signals. The
chip supports up to four memory DIMMs.
Power supplies are 2.5V for the core and 3.3V for most of the I/O. A
5V reference is needed for the 5V tolerant PCI inputs. Reference
voltages for ArtX and ArtX+ are also needed.The part is packaged in a
35x35mm 492 ball Thermally Enhanced Ball Grid Array (T 2 BGA) package.
North Bridge Features
o 128-bit Data Streaming architecture for highest performance
SMA/UMA
o PC99 compliant
o 100/66MHz CPU Front Side Bus, 1XXMHz ready
o Standard PC-100/66 SDRAM (up to 1 GB) PC-1XX ready
o 33 MHz PCI 2.2 compliant I/O bus
o ACPI power management
o Compatible with single-chip ALi M1535D and M1543 South Bridges
Performance 3D Graphics by ArtX
o First integrated North Bridge with hardware-accelerated geometry
transformation & lighting (T&L)
o Setup engine
o Delivers fastest real game performance
o Revolutionary new parallel rendering architecture for state-of-
the-art pixel fill rates
o Industry-leading 8X Virtual AGPTM graphics performance and
functionality
o Hardware features:
- Accelerated floating point Geometry and texture coordinate
transformation, clipping, perspective projection
- Accelerated specular, diffuse, and ambient lighting
- 3D points, lines, triangles, polygons
- Perspective-correct trilinear-filtered MIP-mapped texture
mapping
- Alpha blending
- Exponential pixel fog
- Depth, stencil buffering
- Anti-aliasing
- Framebuffer clear and copy
2D/Multimedia Features
o 30fps DVD playback with hardware acceleration (motion
compensation)
o 128-bit BitBLT engine, 256 raster operations
o Full color RGBA, color expansion, color keying
o YUV planar 4:2:0, 4:2:2 video overlay, video scaling and filtering
Display Controller
o Up to 1600x1200 non-interlaced screen resolution
o Hardware features:
- Analog CRT monitor output
- 32-bit full-color
- Fully compliant VGA adapter
- Downloadable RAMDAC, hardware cursor
o VBE 3.0 support
Memory interface
o 128-bit PC100/PC66 SDRAM, PC-1XX Ready
o Up to 2.1 Gbytes/second bandwidth
Drivers
o Optimized driver for DirectX 7 with Direct3D, OpenGL ICD, HWMC
o and GDI acceleration on Windows 98 and Windows 2000
o Dynamic memory allocation for texture
o Drivers available for Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0
Packaging
o 492-BGA, 35x35mm
***Configurations:...
**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:...
*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
Chips:
[82443MX]
CPUs: Single P-II/III/Celeron
DRAM Types: SDRAM
Mem Rows: 4 ???
DRAM Density: 16Mbit 64Mbit ???
Max Mem: 512MB
ECC/Parity: No
AGP speed: not supported
Bus Speed: 66 100
PCI Clock/Bus: 1/2 1/3
**450NX (?) 06/29/98:...
**????? (Profusion) c:99...
**800 series...
*Headland/G2...
*HMC (Hulon Microelectronics)...
*Logicstar...
*Motorola...
*OPTi...
*PC CHIPS/Amptron/Atrend/ECS/Elpina/etc...
*SIS...
*Symphony...
*TI (Texas Instruments)...
*UMC...
**UM82C088 PC/XT Integration Chip <91
***Info:...
***Configurations:...
***Features:...
**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] ?...
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**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:...
*Unresearched:...
*VIA...
*VLSI...
*Western Digital...
*Winbond...
*ZyMOS...
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