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Nexgen designed its own chipset for the Nx586 with the help of VLSI.
The first chipset was the NxVL for motherboards equipped with a VESA Local
Bus. This chipset was manufactured by Fujitsu and was packaged in a Ceramic
PGA, very unusual.
Nexgen intended to realease a PCI chipset, the NxPCI (820C500), by fall
1994. But the chipset design was troublesome and it was delayed many times.
Finally the combined Nexgen/VLSI design team got it together and it arrived
to market in September 1995, one year late! At the end of 1994 Nexgen
also announced its plans for a cost reduced version of the NxVL chipset.
The NxVL2, which would be able to support the Nx586 and the next generation
CPU Nx686. This chipset however was never released.
The first NxPCI AT motherboards were shipped at the beginning of September
1995 after they were first announced in fall 1994. Motherboards featured
support for EDO and Fast Page memory up to 768MB DRAM, up to four IDE
devices, an on-board floppy controller, two serial ports and one parallel.
It had four ISA slots and three PCI slots. Prices for a complete configuration,
motherboard, CPU and heatsink were at $339 in combination with the Nx586
P90 and $439 with a P100.
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