Silicon Integrated Systems

Silicon Integrated Systems
矽統科技
Type	Public
Traded as	(TWSE: 2363)
Founded	1987
Headquarters	Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan
Website	www.sis.com

Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS; Chinese: 矽統科技; pinyin: Xìtǒng Kējì) is a company that manufactures, among other things, motherboard chipsets. The company was founded in 1987 in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan.

Business

In the late 1990s, SiS made the decision to invest in their own chip fabrication facilities. At the end of 1999, SiS acquired Rise Technology and that company's mP6 x86 core technology.^[1]

Mainboard chipsets

One of the most famous chipsets produced by SiS was the late 486-age chipset 496/497 which supported PCI bus among older ISA- and VLB-buses. Mainboards using this chipset and equipped with CPUs such as the Intel 80486DX4, AMD 5x86 or Cyrix Cx5x86 processors had performance and compatibility comparable with early Intel Pentium systems in addition to a lower price.

SiS 5598

After this late success, SiS continued positioning itself as a budget chipset producer. The company emphasized high integration to minimize the cost to implement their solutions. As such, SiS one-chip mainboard chipsets that included integrated video, such as the Socket 7-based SiS 5596, SiS 5598, and SiS 530 along with the Slot 1-based SiS 620. These were some of the first PC chipsets with such high integration. They allowed entire system solutions to be built with just a mainboard, system RAM, and a CPU.

386 & 486 (Socket 1, 2, 3)

SiS 310,320,320 "Rabbit"
SiS 401/402 ISA
SiS 406/411 EISA, Vesa Local Bus
SiS 460 ISA, Vesa Local Bus
SiS 461 ISA, Vesa Local Bus
SiS 471 ISA, Vesa Local Bus
SiS 496/497 ISA, VLB, PCI

Pentium (Socket 4,5,7)

SiS LAN Chip SiS900

SiS 501/502/503 PCI, ISA
SiS 5511/5512/5513 ISA, PCI
SiS 5571 ISA, PCI
SiS 5581/5582 ISA, PCI, AGP
SiS 5591/5595 ISA, PCI, AGP

The SiS 530 (Sindbad) with SiS 5595 southbridge supported Socket 7, SDRAM 1.5GB max., a bus frequency from 66 MHz to 124 MHz, and can have from 2 to 8 MiB shared memory for an integrated AGP SiS 6306 2D/3D graphics controller. Includes integrated UDMA66 IDE controller. mainboards using the SiS 530 were positioned as cheap office platforms and paired often with low-cost chips from Intel competitors, such as the AMD K6 series or Cyrix 6x86. The graphics controller had Direct3D 6.0 and OpenGL support, although it was a very low-performance product for 3D acceleration.^[2]

SiS 540 (Spartan) integrates SiS 300 graphics controller.

Socket 370, Slot 1

SiS 600/SiS 5595
SiS 620/SiS 5595
SiS 630 - includes North- and South bridges (SiS 960) and 2D/3D graphics controller (SiS 305) on one chip
SiS 633
SiS 635

Socket 478, Socket 775

SiS and ALi were the only two companies initially awarded licenses to produce third party chipsets for the Pentium 4. SiS developed the 648 chipset with this license (SiS 648 B Stepping supports Intel Hyper-Threading CPU on some motherboards like MSI 648 Max).^[3]

Chipset	Release Date	South Bridge	Socket	Processors	FSB	Memory types	Memory bus	Max. memory	Graphics Slot	IGP
SiS 645^[4]	2001	SiS961, SiS961B	Socket 423, Socket 478	Pentium 4, Celeron	400 MHz	SDR SDRAM, DDR SDRAM	100/133 MHz SDR, 200/266/333 MHz DDR	3 GB	AGP 2×/4×	No
SiS 645DX^[5]	2002	SiS961, SiS962, SiS962L	Socket 478	Pentium 4, Celeron	400/533 MHz	SDR SDRAM, DDR SDRAM	100/133 MHz SDR, 200/266/333 MHz DDR	3 GB	AGP 2×/4×	No
SiS 648		SiS963, SiS963L	Socket 478	Pentium 4, Celeron	400/533 MHz	DDR SDRAM	200/266/333 MHz DDR	3 GB	AGP 4×/8×	No
SiS 648FX^[6]	2003	SiS963, SiS963L	Socket 478	Pentium 4, Pentium 4 EE, Celeron, Celeron D	400/533/800 MHz	DDR SDRAM	200/266/333/400 MHz DDR	3 GB	AGP 4×/8×	No
SiS 649		SiS965, SiS965L	Socket 775	Pentium 4, Pentium 4 EE, Pentium D, Celeron, Celeron D	400/533/800 MHz	DDR SDRAM, DDR2 SDRAM	200/266/333/400 MHz DDR, 400/533 MHz DDR2	2 GB	PCI-E x16	No
SiS 649FX		SiS966, SiS966L	Socket 775	Pentium 4, Pentium 4 EE, Pentium D, Celeron, Celeron D	400/533/800 MHz	DDR SDRAM, DDR2 SDRAM	200/266/333/400 MHz DDR, 400/533 MHz DDR2	2 GB	PCI-E x16	No
SiS 649DX		SiS966, SiS966L	Socket 775	Pentium 4, Pentium 4 EE, Pentium D, Celeron, Celeron D	400/533/800 MHz	DDR2 SDRAM	400/533 MHz DDR2	2 GB	PCI-E x16	No
SiS 650^[7]	2001	SiS961, SiS961B	Socket 423, Socket 478	Pentium 4, Celeron	400 MHz	SDR SDRAM, DDR SDRAM	100/133 MHz SDR, 200/266 MHz DDR	3 GB	AGP 2×/4×	SiS315
SiS 650GX		SiS961, SiS961B	Socket 423, Socket 478	Pentium 4, Celeron	400 MHz	SDR SDRAM, DDR SDRAM	100/133 MHz SDR, 200/266/333 MHz DDR	3 GB	AGP 2×/4×	SiS315
SiS 651		SiS962, SiS962L	Socket 478	Pentium 4, Celeron	400/533 MHz	SDR SDRAM, DDR SDRAM	100/133 MHz SDR, 200/266/333 MHz DDR	3 GB	AGP 2×/4×	SiS315
SiS 655^[8]	2003	SiS963, SiS963L	Socket 478/Socket 775	Pentium 4, Celeron	400/533 MHz	Dual Channel DDR SDRAM	266/333/400 MHz DDR	4 GB	AGP 4×/8×	No
SiS 655FX		SiS964, SiS964L	Socket 478	Pentium 4, Pentium 4 EE, Celeron, Celeron D	400/533/800 MHz	Dual Channel DDR SDRAM	266/333/400 MHz DDR	4 GB	AGP 4×/8×	No
SiS 655TX		SiS964, SiS964L	Socket 478	Pentium 4, Pentium 4 EE, Celeron, Celeron D	400/533/800 MHz	Dual Channel DDR SDRAM	266/333/400 MHz DDR	4 GB	AGP 4×/8×	No
SiS 656		SiS965, SiS965L	Socket 775	Pentium 4, Pentium 4 EE, Celeron D	533/800 MHz	Dual Channel DDR/DDR2 SDRAM	266/333/400 MHz DDR, 400/533 MHz DDR2	4 GB	PCI-E x16	No
SiS 656FX		SiS966, SiS966L	Socket 775	Pentium 4, Pentium 4 EE, Pentium D, Celeron D	533/800 MHz	Dual Channel DDR/DDR2 SDRAM	266/333/400 MHz DDR, 400/533/667 MHz DDR2	4 GB	PCI-E x16	No
SiS 661FX^[9]	2003	SiS964, SiS964L	Socket 478, Socket 775	Pentium 4, Pentium 4 EE, Celeron, Celeron D	400/533/800 MHz	DDR SDRAM	266/333/400 MHz DDR	3 GB	AGP 4×/8×	SiS315
SiS 661GX		SiS964, SiS964L	Socket 478, Socket 775	Pentium 4, Pentium 4 EE, Celeron, Celeron D	400/533/800 MHz	DDR SDRAM	266/333/400 MHz DDR	3 GB	AGP 4×/8×	SiS315
SiS 662		SiS966, SiS966L	Socket 775	Pentium 4, Pentium 4 EE, Pentium D, Core 2 Duo, Pentium Dual Core, Celeron, Celeron D	533/800 MHz	DDR2 SDRAM	400/533/667 MHz DDR2	2 GB	PCI-E x16	SiS315
SiS 671		SiS968	Socket 775	Pentium 4, Pentium 4 EE, Pentium D, Core 2 Duo, Pentium Dual Core, Celeron, Celeron D	533/800/1066 MHz	DDR2 SDRAM	400/533/667 MHz DDR2	4 GB	PCI-E x16	SiS351 (Mirage 3)
SiS 671FX		SiS968	Socket 775	Pentium 4, Pentium 4 EE, Pentium D, Core 2 Duo, Pentium Dual Core, Celeron, Celeron D	533/800/1066 MHz	DDR2 SDRAM	400/533/667 MHz DDR2	4 GB	PCI-E x16	SiS351 (Mirage 3)
SiS 671DX		SiS968	Socket 775	Pentium 4, Pentium 4 EE, Pentium D, Core 2 Duo, Pentium Dual Core, Celeron, Celeron D	533/800/1066 MHz	DDR2 SDRAM	400/533/667 MHz DDR2	4 GB	PCI-E x16	SiS351 (Mirage 3)
SiS 672		SiS968	Socket 775	Pentium 4, Pentium 4 EE, Pentium D, Core 2 Duo, Pentium Dual Core, Celeron, Celeron D	533/800 MHz	DDR2 SDRAM	400/533/667 MHz DDR2	4 GB	PCI-E x16	SiS351 (Mirage 3)
SiS R658		SiS963, SiS963L	Socket 478	Pentium 4, Celeron	400/533 MHz	Dual Channel RDRAM	PC1066 RDRAM/RIMM 4200/4800	4 GB (1 GB per Channel)	AGP 4×/8×	No

Socket A (Socket 462), Slot A

Chipset	Release Date	Southbridge	Processors	FSB	Memory types	Memory bus	Max. memory	AGP	IGP
SiS 730	1999	Northbridge integrated	Slot A, Socket A	100/133 MHz	SDR SDRAM	100/133 MHz SDR	1.5 GB	2×/4×	SiS305
SiS 733		Northbridge integrated	Slot A, Socket A	200/266 MHz	SDR SDRAM	100/133 MHz SDR	1.5 GB	2×/4×	No
SiS 735^[10]		Northbridge integrated	Slot A, Socket A	200/266 MHz	SDR SDRAM, DDR SDRAM	100/133 MHz SDR, 200/266 MHz DDR	1.5 GB	2×/4×	No
SiS 740^[11]		SiS961, SiS962L	Socket A	200/266 MHz	SDR SDRAM, DDR SDRAM	100/133 MHz SDR, 200/266 MHz DDR	1.5 GB	2×/4×	SiS315
SiS 741^[12]	2003	SiS964, SiS964L	Socket A	266/333/400 MHz	DDR SDRAM	266/333/400 MHz DDR	3 GB	4×/8×	SiS315
SiS 741GX^[12]	2003	SiS964, SiS964L	Socket A	266/333 MHz	DDR SDRAM	266/333 MHz DDR	3 GB	4×/8×	SiS315
SiS 745^[11]	2001	Northbridge integrated	Socket A	200/266 MHz	SDR SDRAM, DDR SDRAM	100/133 MHz SDR, 200/266/333 MHz DDR	3 GB	4×/8×	No
SiS 746^[13]		SiS963, SiS963L	Socket A	200/266 MHz	DDR SDRAM	200/266/333 MHz DDR	3 GB	4×/8×	No
SiS 746FX^[13]		SiS963, SiS963L	Socket A	200/266/333 MHz	DDR SDRAM	200/266/333/400 MHz DDR	3 GB	4×/8×	No
SiS 748^[14]	2003	SiS963, SiS963L	Socket A	200/266/333/400 MHz	DDR SDRAM	200/266/333/400 MHz DDR	3 GB	4×/8×	No

Socket 940, 754

SiS 761GX

SiS 755FX
SiS 760 (IGP)
SiS 760GX (IGP)
SiS 761GX (IGP)^[15]

Socket 939, AM2

SiS 756
SiS 771 (IGP) (Cancelled?)^[16]

SiS created a multimedia chipset for the Xbox 360.^[17]

Southbridge chips

Paired with later SiS chipsets, such as the 661GX/761GX, which adopt a standard two-chip chipset design (instead of single-chip, like the older SiS 630/730 series chipsets). SiS southbridges handle IDE, LAN (with MAC chip), audio (with CODEC chip), and other I/O connectivity. SiS' proprietary MuTIOL interconnect connects the southbridge chip to the northbridge, which contains the RAM controller (for chipsets targeted at Intel platforms) and interfaces with the CPU.

Southbridge	Release Date	NB/SB Interconnect	PCI Express/Ports	Serial ATA/RAID	Parallel ATA	USB	Audio	LAN MAC	IEEE 1394
SiS 961^[4]^[18]	2001	MuTIOL®, 533MB/s	N/A	N/A	4x ATA/100 Devices	1.1, 6 ports	AC'97	10/100	No
SiS 961B	?	MuTIOL®, 533MB/s	N/A	N/A	4x ATA/133 Devices	1.1, 6 ports	AC'97	10/100	No
SiS 962	2002	MuTIOL®, 533MB/s	N/A	N/A	4x ATA/133 Devices	2.0, 6 ports	AC'97	10/100	Yes
SiS 962L	2002	MuTIOL®, 533MB/s	N/A	N/A	4x ATA/133 Devices	2.0, 6 ports	AC'97	10/100	No
SiS 963^[8]	2002	MuTIOL® 1G, 1GB/s	N/A	N/A	4x ATA/133 Devices	2.0, 6 ports	AC'97	10/100	Yes
SiS 963L^[6]	2002	MuTIOL® 1G, 1GB/s	N/A	N/A	4x ATA/133 Devices	2.0, 6 ports	AC'97	10/100	No
SiS 964^[12]	2003	MuTIOL® 1G, 1GB/s	N/A	2x SATA/150, RAID 0,1,JBOD	4x ATA/133 Devices	2.0, 8 ports	AC'97	10/100	No
SiS 964L	2003	MuTIOL® 1G, 1GB/s	N/A	2x SATA/150, RAID 0,1,JBOD	4x ATA/133 Devices	2.0, 8 ports	AC'97	10/100	No
SiS 965	2005?	MuTIOL® 1G, 1GB/s	PCIe x1, 2 ports	4x SATA/150, RAID 0,1,0+1,JBOD	4x ATA/133 Devices	2.0, 8 ports	AC'97	10/100/1000 (SiS 191)
SiS 965L	2005?	MuTIOL® 1G, 1GB/s	PCIe x1, 2 ports	2x SATA/150, RAID 0,1,JBOD	4x ATA/133 Devices	2.0, 8 ports	AC'97	10/100 (SiS 190)
SiS 966^[19]	2005?	MuTIOL® 1G, 1GB/s	PCIe x1, 2 ports	4x SATA/150 (AHCI), RAID 0,1,0+1,JBOD	4x ATA/133 Devices	2.0, 8 ports	AC'97/HD Audio	10/100/1000 (SiS 191)	No
SiS 966L	2005?	MuTIOL® 1G, 1GB/s	PCIe x1, 2 ports	2x SATA/150 (AHCI), RAID 0,1,JBOD	4x ATA/133 Devices	2.0, 8 ports	AC'97/HD Audio	10/100 (SiS 190)
SiS 968^[20]	2007?	MuTIOL® 1G, 1GB/s	PCIe x1, 2 ports	2x SATA/300 (AHCI), RAID 0,1,JBOD	2x ATA/133 Devices	2.0, 8 ports	HD Audio	10/100/1000	No

Graphics chipsets

SiS 6201
SiS 6202
SiS 6205
SiS 6215
SiS 6225
SiS 6306
SiS 6326
SiS 300
SiS 301
SiS 305
SiS 315
SiS 320 (Xabre 80)
SiS 326
SiS 330 (Mirage IGP)
SiS 340 (Xabre 200)
SiS 360 (Xabre 400)
SiS 380 (Xabre 600)

Some cards contain a 3D graphics accelerator but it is only functional with the SiS's Proprietary Windows-only driver (the company does not provide documentation for others to write drivers). However, the Linux kernel includes a working third party driver that, while not supporting 3D gaming, makes the cards usable under Linux.

Touch-Screen chipsets

SiS 9202
SiS 9203
SiS 9220P
SiS 9223
SiS 9250
SiS 9250H
SiS 9251
SiS 9252
SiS 9255
SiS 9272
SiS 9275
SiS 9277

References

↑ Carroll, Mark. SiS acquires Rise CPU technology, EE Times, 13 October 1999.
↑ Masrani, P. Asus P5S-B Super Socket 7 mainboard Review, PC Stats, 12 April 2000.
↑ Lal Shimpi, Anand. SiS 648 - Taking Advantage of the P4 Situation, AnandTech, 22 July 2002.
1 2 http://www.sis.com/news_room/news.aspx?m=23&region=en-global&rsn=1187
↑ http://www.sis.com/news_room/news.aspx?m=23&region=en-global&rsn=1201
1 2 http://www.sis.com/news_room/news.aspx?m=23&region=en-global&rsn=1224
↑ http://www.sis.com/news_room/news.aspx?m=23&region=en-global&rsn=1189
1 2 "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-12-11. Retrieved 2013-07-05.
↑ http://www.sis.com/news_room/news.aspx?m=23&region=en-global&rsn=1229
↑ http://ixbtlabs.com/articles/sis735/
1 2 http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/news1449.html
1 2 3 "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-02. Retrieved 2013-07-05.
1 2 http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/roundupmobo/nforce2gt-sis746fx-roundup.html
↑ http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/roundupmobo/sis748-chipset.html
↑ Gasior, Geoff. A look at SiS's desktop chipset roadmap, The Tech Report, 25 June 2004.
↑ Fink, Wesley. SiS 771 Reference Board Review, Hardware Secrets, 16 October 2006.
↑ Press Release: SiS Fuels Xbox 360 Storm with Powerful Multimedia Chipset, SiS, 23 November 2005.
↑ http://ixbtlabs.com/articles/sis645/
↑ Fink, Wesley. SiS 756: PCI Express for AMD Socket 939, AnandTech, 13 September 2005.
↑ Torres, Gabriel. SiS 672FX Reference Board Review Archived 2014-06-21 at the Wayback Machine., Hardware Secrets, 31 July 2007.

External links

Silicon Integrated Systems Homepage

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[1] Carroll, Mark. SiS acquires Rise CPU technology, EE Times, 13 October 1999.

[2] Masrani, P. Asus P5S-B Super Socket 7 mainboard Review, PC Stats, 12 April 2000.

[3] Lal Shimpi, Anand. SiS 648 - Taking Advantage of the P4 Situation, AnandTech, 22 July 2002.

[SiS645_961-4] 1 2 http://www.sis.com/news_room/news.aspx?m=23&region=en-global&rsn=1187

[SiS645DX-5] ttp://www.sis.com/news_room/news.aspx?m=23&region=en-global&rsn=1201

[SiS648FX_963L-6] 1 2 http://www.sis.com/news_room/news.aspx?m=23&region=en-global&rsn=1224

[SiS650-7] ttp://www.sis.com/news_room/news.aspx?m=23&region=en-global&rsn=1189

[SiS655_963-8] 1 2 "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-12-11. Retrieved 2013-07-05.

[SiS661FX-9] ttp://www.sis.com/news_room/news.aspx?m=23&region=en-global&rsn=1229

[SiS735-10] ttp://ixbtlabs.com/articles/sis735/

[SiS740_745-11] 1 2 http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/news1449.html

[SiS741_964-12] 1 2 3 "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-02. Retrieved 2013-07-05.

[SiS746_746FX-13] 1 2 http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/roundupmobo/nforce2gt-sis746fx-roundup.html

[SiS748-14] ttp://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/roundupmobo/sis748-chipset.html

[15] Gasior, Geoff. A look at SiS's desktop chipset roadmap, The Tech Report, 25 June 2004.

[16] Fink, Wesley. SiS 771 Reference Board Review, Hardware Secrets, 16 October 2006.

[17] Press Release: SiS Fuels Xbox 360 Storm with Powerful Multimedia Chipset, SiS, 23 November 2005.

[18] ttp://ixbtlabs.com/articles/sis645/

[19] Fink, Wesley. SiS 756: PCI Express for AMD Socket 939, AnandTech, 13 September 2005.

[20] Torres, Gabriel. SiS 672FX Reference Board Review Archived 2014-06-21 at the Wayback Machine., Hardware Secrets, 31 July 2007.