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Chips and Technologies (C&T), founded in Milpitas, California in December 1984〔(Chips & Technologies:Driving in the Fast Lane ), ''InfoWorld'', February 22, 1988〕 by Gordon A. Campbell and Dado Banatao, was perhaps the first fabless semiconductor company, a model developed by Campbell. Its first product, announced September 1985, was a four chip EGA chipset that handled the functions of 19 of IBM's proprietary chips on the Enhanced Graphics Adapter. By that November's COMDEX, more than a half dozen companies had introduced EGA-compatible boards based on C&T's chipset.〔(The Enhanced Graphics Standard Comes of Age ), ''PC Magazine'', August 1986〕 This was followed by chipsets for PC motherboards and other computer graphics chips. C&T was acquired by Intel in 1997, primarily for its graphics chip business. Former members of C&T founded Asiliant Technologies in January 2000 to continue the support of the CHIPS 65545, 65550, 65555, 69000, 69030, and other notebook and LCD oriented graphics ICs. Intel licensed the rights to build, sell, and service the C&T chips to Asiliant. Asiliant manufactured and sold C&T components for the next few years until it closed. Asiliant Technologies is no longer in business. Their website simply states "Asiliant.com is no longer available.". ==x86 products== C&T SuperMath J38700DX was a 80387DX compatible FPU coprocessor. C&T also designed a 386-compatible microprocessor known as the Super386 38600DX/38600SX using clean room design techniques, but this chip never enjoyed as much success as the 386 CPUs produced by Intel, AMD, and Cyrix. C&T 38605DX had 512 byte cache, but the 144 pin PGA package was incompatible with 386 socket. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chips and Technologies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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