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Famous Graphics chips: Intel 740

Intel has tried several times to get into the stand-alone graphics chip market. Its first attempt in 1982 was the cross-licensing of the NEC 7220,  which became the Intel 82720. Then in 1983, Intel made the iSBX 275 Multibus-based add-in graphics board (AIB) with the chip.  Its second attempt was in 1988 when it released the 82786, which it billed as ...

Jon Peddie

Intel has tried several times to get into the stand-alone graphics chip market. Its first attempt in 1982 was the cross-licensing of the NEC 7220,  which became the Intel 82720. Then in 1983, Intel made the iSBX 275 Multibus-based add-in graphics board (AIB) with the chip.  Its second attempt was in 1988 when it released the 82786, which it billed as a VLSI graphics coprocessor. It was designed to be used with Intel’s l6-bit 80186 and 80286 and 32-bit 80386 processors. “One of the key hardware extensions that support the speed needed to do graphics and text is a graphics coprocessor,”
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