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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...
*Contaq . . . . . [no datasheets, some info]...
*Efar Microsystems [no datasheets, some info]...
*ETEQ...
*Faraday...
*Forex . . . . . . [List only, no datasheets found]...
*Intel...
**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:...
**450NX (?) 06/29/98:...
**????? (Profusion) c:99...
**800 series...
*Headland/G2...
*HMC (Hulon Microelectronics)...
*Logicstar...
*Motorola...
*OPTi...
**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...
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**Support Chips:
**82C601/2 Buffer Devices <Nov94...
**82C822 PCIB (VLB-to-PCI bridge) c:94...
**Other:...
*PC CHIPS/Amptron/Atrend/ECS/Elpina/etc...
*SIS...
*Symphony...
*TI (Texas Instruments)...
*UMC...
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*VIA...
*VLSI...
**VL82C386-SET TOPCAT 386DX PC/AT-Compatible Chip Set ?
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**VL82C386sx-SET TOPCAT 286/386SX PC/AT-Compatible Chip Set ?...
**VL82C310 SCAMP-LT ?...
**VL82C311 SCAMP-DT ?...
**VL82C311L SCAMP-DT 286 ?...
**VL82C312 SCAMP Power Management Unit (PMU) ?...
**VL82C315A SCAMP II, Low-Power Notebook Chipset ?...
**VL82C322A SCAMP II, Power Management Unit (PMU) ?...
**VL82C316 SCAMP II, PC/AT-Compatible System Controller ?...
**VL82C323 SCAMP II, 5 Volt Power Management Unit (PMU) ?...
**VL82C380 Single chip 386DX PC/AT Controller +on-chip cache ?...
**VL82C325 VL82C386SX System Cache controller ?...
**VL82C335 VL82C386DX System Cache ctrl. [no d.sheet] ?...
**VL82C315A/322A/3216 Kodiak 32-Bit Low-Voltage Chip Set ?...
**VL82C420/144/146 SCAMP IV [no datasheet, some info] c93...
**VL82C480 System/Cache/ISA bus Controller ?...
**VL82C481 System/Cache/ISA bus Controller c92...
**VL82C486 Single-Chip 486, SC486, Controller ?...
**VL82C425 486 Cache controller ?...
**???????? Cheetah 486, PCI [no datasheet] ?...
**VL82C3216 Bus Expanding Controller Cache with write buffer ?...
**VL82C521/522 Lynx/M ?...
**VL82C530 Eagle Ð c95...
**VL82C541/543 Lynx c95...
**VL82C591/593 SuperCore 590 c94...
**VL82C594/596/597 Wildcat c95...
**I/O Chips:
**VL82C106 Combination I/O chip ?...
**VL82C107 SCAMP Combination I/O chip ?...
**VL82C108 TOPCAT Combination I/O chip ?...
**VL82C110 Combination I/O chip ?...
**VL82C113 SCAMP Combination I/O chip ?...
**VL82C114 Combination I/O chip ?...
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**Not sure if they actually exist...
*Western Digital...
*Winbond...
*ZyMOS...
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