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**82489DX Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 10/12/92
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**82495DX/490DX DX CPU-Cache Chip Set <Sep91...
**82495XP/490XP Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for i860) 06/05/91...
**82496/491 Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P5 Pentium) 03/22/93...
**82497/492 Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P54 Pentium) <Nov94...
**82498/493 Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P54 Pentium) <Nov94...
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**Later chipsets (basic spec):
**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...
**450NX (?) 06/29/98:...
**????? (Profusion) c:99...
**800 series...
*Headland/G2...
*HMC (Hulon Microelectronics)...
*Logicstar...
*Motorola...
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**82C556M/7M/8E Viper-N+ Viper Notebook Chipset c:96
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**82C566/7/8 Viper-Max Chipset Scalable MultiMedia PC Solution ?...
**82C571/572 486/Pentium c:93...
**82C576/7/8 Viper Xpress [no datasheet] ?...
**82C576/8/9 Viper XPress+ [no datasheet, some info] <01/16/97...
**82C596/597 PTMAWB Pentium Adaptive Write-back (Cobra) c:93...
**82C650/1/2 Discovery (Pentium Pro) [no datasheet] ?...
**82C681/2/6/7 386/486WB EISA c:92...
**82C683 386/486AWB EISA [no datasheet] ?...
**82C693/6/7 Pentium uP Write Back Cache EISA c:93...
**82C700 FireStar c:97...
**82C701 FireStar Plus c:97...
**82C750 Vendetta [no datasheet] ?...
**82c801 SCWB2 DX Single Chip Solution c:92...
**82C802 SCWB2 PC/AT Single Chip [no datasheet] ?...
**82C802G/GP System/Power Management Controller (cached) c:93...
**82C895 System/Power Management Controller (cached) c:Sep94...
**82C898 System/Power Management Controller (non-cache)c:Nov94...
**
**Support Chips:
**82C601/2 Buffer Devices <Nov94...
**82C822 PCIB (VLB-to-PCI bridge) c:94
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*PC CHIPS/Amptron/Atrend/ECS/Elpina/etc...
**Notes:
You eventually get to know when a board is made by PC Chips just by
looking at it.
Here is a test:
1. No manufacture name, or one of the above.
2. If the board has a lots of components that sound like a well known
part but aren't the well known part. i.e. 'HX Pro' instead of
'430HX'
3a. A really good feature set where you think, that's exactly what I'm
looking for.
b. The features don't really work as intended.
4. The price is fantastic.
5. Its disappointing on closer examination.
PC Chips is renowned for making crap products. Some are actually not
too bad, they're no worse than your average brand. However some are a
nightmare either by design or just poorly made. Fake components glued
on is not uncommon. Fake labels over other components. PCB's so thin
they require low insertion force ISA connectors, every trick to save a
few $.
**Early Chipsets:...
**Later Chipsets:...
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*TI (Texas Instruments)...
*UMC...
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*VIA...
**SL9025 Address Controller <Jan90
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**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) ?...
**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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