386 Motherboards
Contents
- 1 386 Chipsets
- 1.1 Acer Labs Inc. (ALi)
- 1.2 ALD
- 1.3 Chips & Technologies (C&T or "CHIPS")
- 1.4 Contaq
- 1.5 Efar Microsystems
- 1.6 Elite Microelectronics
- 1.7 Eteq
- 1.8 Forex
- 1.9 FTDI
- 1.10 Hong Kong Technologies
- 1.11 Headland Technologies
- 1.12 Mosel
- 1.13 Macronix
- 1.14 OPTi
- 1.15 Sarc
- 1.16 Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)
- 1.17 Symphony Labs
- 1.18 Texas Instruments
- 1.19 UMC
- 1.20 VIA
- 1.21 VLSI
386 Chipsets
Very early 386 motherboards used mostly discrete logic "TTL" ICs. Early 386 chipsets simply merged many of the TTL chips (DMA, IRQ, timers etc) into several highly integrated ICs. The first generation wasn't considered to be totally reliable so they were often mounted in PLCC sockets so expensive motherboards could be easily serviced. These early chipsets often have their top speeds stamped into the tops, and exceeding these limits can result in permanent damage as early VLSI chips were very sensitive. Later 386 chipsets contained reduced numbers of chips and became more specialized, integrating cache controllers, UMB memory management and sometimes support for DRAM interleaving. The last generation of 386 chipsets appeared in the early 90s and were often used in low end 486 motherboards as well. These are often 1 or 2 chip designs and are sometimes lacking performance or features of previous generation high end 386 chipsets, however they are usually rated for operation at higher speeds (40MHz) and work well with fast memory timings.
Acer Labs Inc. (ALi)
- M1209, 386SX/SLC
- M1217, 386SX/SLC
- M1419
- M1429, 386DX/486
ALD
- 308/308A
Chips & Technologies (C&T or "CHIPS")
- CS8230
- CS82310 PEAKset DM
- 82C236 SCATsx
Contaq
- 82C591/82C592 WriteBack
- 82C596 WriteBack
Efar Microsystems
- 82EC495 WriteBack
- 82EC798 WriteBack
Elite Microelectronics
- Eagle
Eteq
- 82C491/82C493 "Bobcat"
- 82C491/82C492 "Cougar"
- 82C4901/82C4902 "Bengal" WriteBack
Forex
- 36C300/200 [36C300/46C402] WriteThru
- 36C311 Single Chip 386SX with Cache
- 46C411/402 WriteThru
- 46C521 WriteBack
- 46C421A/422 WriteBack
FTDI
- FTDI 82C3480 WriteBack/WriteThru
Hong Kong Technologies
- HK3000
Headland Technologies
- HT12/HT12+ (built in EMS)
- HT22/HT18C
- HT320 "Shasta"
- HT340 "Shasta"
Mosel
- MS400 Single Chip
Macronix
- MX83C305/306 (with built-in 8Kb cache)
OPTi
- 82C281 Single-Chip Posted-Write
- 82C283 Single-Chip
- 82C291 Single-Chip WriteBack
- 82C381 WriteThru
- 82C391 WriteBack
- 82C481 WriteThru
- 82C491 WriteBack
- 82C493 WriteBack
- 82C495[SX/XLC/SLC]/392 Write Back
- 82C496/497
Sarc
- RC2016A
Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)
- 85C310/320/330 "Rabbit", Interleaved DRAM
- 85C460
- 85C461
Symphony Labs
- SL82C46x "Haydn"
Texas Instruments
- TACT83000 "Tiger"
UMC
- 82C330 "Twinstar"
- 82C48x WriteBack
- 82C491 Single-Chip
VIA
VLSI
- 386 "Topcat"
