Chips and Technologies (C&T), founded in Milpitas, California in December 1984. It was perhaps the first fabless semiconductor company, a model developed by Campbell.
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. 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.
