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Chips and Technologies

Logo: Chips and Technologies, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

American semiconductor company

Chips and Technologies, Inc. (C&T), was an early fabless semiconductor company founded in Milpitas, California, in December 1984 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 It ceased to exist in 1998.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1985Founded1
  • Industrysemiconductor industry1
  • HeadquartersMilpitas1
  • Legal formcorporation1

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Chips and Technologies, Inc. (C&T), was an early fabless semiconductor company founded in Milpitas, California, in December 1984 by Gordon A. Campbell and Dado Banatao.2

The story

Founded by Dado Banatao in 1985.1

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Products and brands

  • microprocessor

Listed on Wikidata.1

C&T SuperMath J38700DX was an 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.

From Wikipedia’s article on Chips and Technologies, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. Feb 2, 1998Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1985Founded Founded1

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