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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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**82C591/2 3/486 <Mar92
The BIOS companion. (Croucher, Phil) available here:
https://archive.org/details/pc_engineers_vol1_BIOS
Lists this as:
82C591/82C592 WriteBack
Also listed in:
ftp://ami.com/archive/Other_Manuals/!index.txt
"
CTQ3591.Z12 55546 03-17-92 386 Contaq 82c591 chipset
CTQ4591.Z12 57510 03-17-92 486 Contaq 82c591 chipset
CTQ591A.Z11 84994 02-08-93 3/486 Contact 591-A chipset
"
Indicating there is an A variant of the 82C591, the 82C591A.
**82C593 3/486 [no datasheet] <May92...
**82C596/A 3/486 Writeback Cache [no datasheet] <11/11/92...
**?????? 486 EISA chipset [no datasheet] <Feb93...
**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] ?...
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**440 series:
***440FX (Natoma) 05/06/96...
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***440GX (Marlinespike) 06/29/98...
***440ZX & 440ZX-66 (?) 01/04/99...
***440ZX-M (?) 05/17/99...
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**????? (Profusion) c:99...
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**UM82C088 PC/XT Integration Chip <91
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**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 ?...
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