Editing Chips and Technologies (section)

{{Short description|American semiconductor company}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Chips and Technologies, Inc.
| logo = Chips and Technologies wordmark.svg
| hq_location_city = [[Milpitas, California]]
| hq_location_country = United States
| area_served = Worldwide
| industry = [[Semiconductor]]s
| products = [[System on a Chip|SoC]]s, GPUs
| foundation = {{start date and age|1984}}
| defunct = {{end date and age|1997}}
| fate = Acquired by [[Intel]]
| website={{web archive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970708093951/http://www.chips.com/|title=chips.com}}
}}

[[File:KL CHIPS F8680 SoC.jpg|thumb|The F8680 is a [[x86]] compatible [[System-on-a-chip|SoC]].]]
'''Chips and Technologies, Inc.''' ('''C&T'''), was an early [[fabless semiconductor company]] founded in [[Milpitas, California]], in December 1984<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Cz8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA34 Chips & Technologies:Driving in the Fast Lane], ''InfoWorld'', February 22, 1988</ref> by Gordon A. Campbell and [[Dado Banatao]].

Its first product, announced September 1985, was a four chip [[Enhanced Graphics Adapter|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.<ref name=EGS>[https://books.google.com/books?id=a91QXlvTPHAC&pg=PA140 The Enhanced Graphics Standard Comes of Age], ''[[PC Magazine]]'', August 1986</ref>  This was followed by chipsets for PC [[motherboard]]s and other computer [[graphics chip]]s.

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.