Chips and Technologies

Chips and Technologies, Inc.
IndustrySemiconductors
Founded1984; 40 years ago (1984)
Defunct1997; 27 years ago (1997)
FateAcquired by Intel
Headquarters
Milpitas, California
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsSoCs, GPUs
The F8680 is a x86 compatible SoC.

Chips and Technologies, Inc. (C&T), was an early fabless semiconductor company founded in Milpitas, California, in December 1984[1] by Gordon A. Campbell and Dado Banatao.

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.[2] 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.

  1. ^ Chips & Technologies:Driving in the Fast Lane, InfoWorld, February 22, 1988
  2. ^ The Enhanced Graphics Standard Comes of Age, PC Magazine, August 1986