NEAT Chipset - Other Manufacturers

Other Manufacturers

Other manufacturers produced equivalent chips. OPTi, for example, produced a two-chip "AT controller" chipset comprising the OPTi 82C206 and 82C495XLC, which was found in many early 80486 and Pentium AT-compatible machines. The OPTi 82C206 provided equivalent functionality to:

  • a 8254 Programmable Interval Timer
  • two 8259 Programmable Interrupt Controllers
  • two 82437 DMA controllers
  • a MC146818 NVRAM/RTC chip
  • a 74LS612 Memory Mapper chip

The 82C495XLC incorporated the additional memory controller and shadow RAM support.

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