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Silicon Integrated Systems
矽統科技
Company typePublic
(TWSE: 2363)
Founded1987; 38 years ago (1987)
HeadquartersHsinchu Science Park, Taiwan
Websitewww.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

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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 its mP6 x86 core technology.[1]

Mainboard chipsets

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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)

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  • SiS 310,320,330 "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
Chipset Release Date Part Numbers South Bridge Socket Processors FSB Memory types Max. memory Parity/ECC L2 Cache Type VLB support PCI support
SiS 310, 320, 330 1991 SiS 85C310,

SiS 85C320,

SiS 85C330

N/A 132-pin PGA 386DX 25/33/40 MHz FPM 32 MB ?? Async. No No
SiS 401/402 SiS 85C401,

SiS 85C402

132-pin PGA, Socket 1/2/3 386DX, 5V 486 25/33/40/50 MHz 64 MB Parity
SiS 406/411 1991? SiS 85C406,

SiS 85C411

SiS 460 1993 SiS 85C460 Yes
SiS 461 SiS 85C461
SiS 471 1994 SiS 85C471 Socket 1/2/3 5 V/3.3 V 486, Am5x86, Cx5x86, Pentium Overdrive 128 MB
SiS 496/497 1995 SiS SiS85C496,

SiS SiS85C497

SiS 497 FPM, EDO 256 MB 2.0

Pentium (Socket 4,5,7)

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SiS LAN Chip SiS900
  • SiS 501/502/503 ISA, PCI
  • SiS 5511/5512/5513 ISA, PCI
  • SiS 5571 ISA, PCI
  • SiS 5581 ISA, PCI
  • SiS 5582 ISA, PCI
  • SiS 5591/5595 ISA, PCI, AGP

The SiS 530 (Sindbad) with SiS 5595 southbridge supported Socket 7, SDRAM 1.5 GB 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.

Chipset Release Date Part Numbers South Bridge Socket Processors FSB Memory types Max. memory Max. cacheable Parity/ECC L2 Cache Type PCI support Graphics Slot IGP
SiS 501/502/503 1995 SiS 85C501,

SiS 85C502,

SiS 85C503

SiS 503 Socket 4

Socket 5/7

Pentium, AMD K5, Cyrix 6x86 50/60/66 MHz FPM 128 MB 128 MB N/A Async. 2.0 N/A No
SiS 5101/5102/5103 SiS 5103 FPM, EDO 512 MB 512 MB
SiS 5501/5502/5503 SiS 5503 ?
SiS 5511/5512/5513 SiS 5513 Socket 5/7 512 MB

1 GB may be possible

? Parity Async. / Pburst 2.1
SiS 5596/5513 1996 Pentium, Pentium MMX, 6x86, AMD K5/K6, Rise mP6, IDT Winchip 512 MB N/A SiS 6205[3]
SiS 5571 Northbridge integrated Socket 7 50/60/66/75 MHz FPM, EDO, SDRAM 384 MB 64 MB? No
SiS 5120 1997 128 MB
SiS 5581
SiS 5582
SiS 5597 SiS 5597
SiS 5598
SiS 5598
SiS 5591/5595 1998 SiS 5595 768 MB 256 MB AGP 1×/2× No
SiS 5592/5595
SiS 530 66/75/83/90/95/100 MHz 1536 MB 2.2 N/A SiS 6306
SiS 540 1999 Northbridge integrated SDRAM, VCSDRAM 512 MB ECC 2.2 SiS 300

Socket 370, Slot 1

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  • 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
Chipset Release Date South Bridge Socket Processors FSB Memory types Memory bus Max. memory Graphics Slot IGP
SiS 5600 1998 SiS 5595 Slot 1 Pentium II/III, Celeron 66/100 MHz FPM, EDO, SDRAM 66/100 MHz SDR 1.5 GB AGP 1×/2× No
SiS 600
SiS 620 Aug 1998 Slot 1, Socket 370 SDRAM N/A SiS 6306
SiS 630 2000 Northbridge integrated 66/100/133 MHz SDRAM, VCSDRAM 66/100/133 MHz SDR SiS305
SiS 630S SDRAM AGP 2×/4×
SiS 630ST 2001 Socket 370 Pentium III, Tualatin, Celeron
SiS 630E 2000 Slot 1, Socket 370 Pentium II/III, Celeron N/A
SiS 630ET 2001 Socket 370 Pentium III, Tualatin, Celeron
SiS 633 Pentium III, Celeron AGP 2×/4×
SiS 633T Pentium III, Tualatin, Celeron
SiS 635 Pentium III, Celeron SDRAM, DDR 100/133 MHz SDR, 200/266 MHz DDR No
SiS 635T Pentium III, Tualatin, Celeron
SiS 640T Never released SiS961, SiS961B 100/133 MHz SDR, 200/266 MHz DDR? AGP 2×/4×? SiS315

Socket 478, Socket 775

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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).[4]

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

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SiS 746FX
Chipset Release Date Southbridge Processors FSB Memory types Memory bus Max. memory AGP IGP
SiS 730 Dec 2000 Northbridge integrated Slot A, Socket A 100/133 MHz[7] SDR SDRAM 100/133 MHz SDR 1.5 GB 2×/4× SiS305
SiS 733 200/266 MHz No
SiS 735[8] SDR SDRAM, DDR SDRAM 100/133 MHz SDR, 200/266 MHz DDR
SiS 740[9] SiS961, SiS962L Socket A SiS315
SiS 745[9] 2001 Northbridge integrated 100/133 MHz SDR, 200/266/333 MHz DDR 3 GB No
SiS 746[10] SiS963, SiS963L DDR SDRAM 200/266/333 MHz DDR 4×/8×
SiS 746FX[10] 200/266/333 MHz 200/266/333/400 MHz DDR
SiS 748[11] 2003 200/266/333/400 MHz
SiS 741GX[12] SiS964, SiS964L 266/333 MHz 266/333 MHz DDR Mirage
SiS 741[12] 266/333/400 MHz 266/333/400 MHz DDR

Socket 940, 754, 939, AM2

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SiS 761GX

Memory support is dependent on the CPU

Chipset Release Date Southbridge Processors HT Graphics Slot IGP
SiS 755 2003 SiS963, SiS963L, SiS964, SiS964L Socket 754 HT 800 AGP 4×/8× No
SiS 755FX 2004 SiS964, SiS964L Socket 939 HT 1000
SiS 760 2003 Socket 754 HT 800 Mirage 2
SiS 760GX 2004 Socket 754, Socket 939
SiS 756 SiS965, SiS965L HT 1000 PCI-E x16 No
SiS 761GX[13] 2005 SiS964, SiS964L, SiS965, SiS965L Socket 754, Socket 939, Socket AM2 Mirage 1
SiS 771[14] 2006 SiS966, SiS966L, SiS968 Socket AM2 SiS351 (Mirage 3)

SiS created a multimedia chipset for the Xbox 360.[15]

Southbridge chips

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SiS 964

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 can handle IDE, LAN (accompanied by a PHY chip), audio (with an AC'97 codec), along with other types of I/O. 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 497 1995 VLB N/A N/A 4x PIOATA Devices N/A N/A N/A No
SiS 503 Local Bus, PCI N/A
SiS 5103 4x PIO/WDMA ATA Devices
SiS 5503
SiS 5513
SiS 5595 1997 PCI 4x ATA/33 Devices 1.1, 2 ports
SiS 961[16][17] 2001 MuTIOL®, 533MB/s 4x ATA/100 Devices 1.1, 6 ports AC'97 10/100
SiS 961B ? 4x ATA/133 Devices
SiS 962 2002 2.0, 6 ports Yes
SiS 962L No
SiS 963[6] MuTIOL® 1G, 1GB/s Yes
SiS 963L[18] No
SiS 964[12] 2003 2x SATA/150, RAID 0,1,JBOD 2.0, 8 ports
SiS 964L
SiS 965 2005? PCIe x1, 2 lanes 4x SATA/150, RAID 0,1,0+1,JBOD 10/100/1000 (SiS 191)
SiS 965L 2x SATA/150, RAID 0,1,JBOD 10/100 (SiS 190)
SiS 966[19] 4x SATA/150 (AHCI), RAID 0,1,0+1,JBOD AC'97/HD Audio 10/100/1000 (SiS 191) No
SiS 966L 2x SATA/150 (AHCI), RAID 0,1,JBOD 10/100 (SiS 190)
SiS 968[20] 2007? 2x SATA/300 (AHCI), RAID 0,1,JBOD 2x ATA/133 Devices HD Audio 10/100/1000 No

Graphics chipsets

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

Discrete 3D Graphics chips

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Model Launch Fab (nm) Bus interface Core clock (MHz) Memory clock (MHz) Core config1 Fillrate Memory API support
MOperations/s MPixels/s MTexels/s MVertices/s Size (MB) Bandwidth (GB/s) Bus type Bus width (bit) Direct3D OpenGL
SiS 6326 1997 AGP 1×

PCI

40 45-80

45–90

66–133

1:0:1:1 40 40 40 0 2-8 0.36-0.64

0.36-0.72

0.53-1.06

FPM

EDO

SDR

64 5.0 N/A
SiS 300 2000 250 nm AGP 4×

PCI

125 166 125 125 125 0 64 2.66 SDR 128 6.0 1.1
SiS 305 2000 250 nm AGP 4×

PCI

125 125 125 125 125 0 32 1.00 SDR 64 6.0 1.1
SiS 315 2001 AGP 4×

PCI

166 166

333

2:0:4:2 333 333 667 0 64 2.66

5.33

SDR

DDR

128 7.0 1.3
SiS 315E 2001 AGP 4×

PCI

143 143

286

2:0:2:2 286 286 286 0 32 1.14

2.28

SDR

DDR

64 7.0 1.3
Xabre 80 2002 150 nm AGP 4× 200 333 4:1:8:4 800 800 1600 50 64 5.33 DDR 128 8.1 1.3
Xabre 200 2002 150 nm AGP 8× 200 400 4:1:8:4 800 800 1600 50 32

64

6.40 DDR 128 8.1 1.3
Xabre 400 2002 150 nm AGP 8× 250 400 4:1:8:4 1000 1000 2000 67.5 64

128

8.00 DDR 128 8.1 1.3
Xabre 600 2002 130 nm AGP 8× 300 600 4:1:8:4 1200 1200 2400 75 64

128

9.60 DDR 128 8.1 1.3

Integrated 3D Graphics

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Model Core Launch Fab (nm) Bus interface Core clock (MHz) Memory clock (MHz) Core config1 Fillrate Memory API support
MOperations/s MPixels/s MTexels/s MVertices/s Size (MB) Bandwidth (GB/s) Bus type Bus width (bit) Direct3D OpenGL
SiS 530/620 SiS 6306 1998 Ultra AGP 40 66-100 1:0:1:1 40 40 40 0 1-8 0.533-0.8 SDR 64 5.0 N/A
SiS 540 SiS 300 1999 Ultra AGP ? 66-133 1:0:1:1 ? ? ? 0 4-64 0.533-1.066 SDR 64 6.0 1.1
SiS 630 SiS 305 2000 Ultra AGP 125 66-133 (System)

??? (EGM)

1:0:1:1 125 125 125 0 4-64 0.533-1.066 (System)

??? (EGM)

SDR 64 (System)

128 (EGM)

6.0 1.1
SiS 730 SiS 305 2000 Ultra AGP 125 100-133 (System)

??? (EGM)

1:0:1:1 125 125 125 0 4-64 0.8-1.066 (System)

??? (EGM)

SDR 64 (System)

128 (EGM)

6.0 1.1
Real256 SiS 315 2001 Ultra AGP 166 100-133

266–333

2:0:4:2 333 333 667 0 32-64 0.8-1.066 (SDR)

2.1-2.656 (DDR)

SDR

DDR

64 7.0 (no T&L) 1.3
Mirage (Real256E) SiS 315 2003 Ultra AGP 200 266-400 2:0:4:2 400 400 800 0 32-64 2.1-3.2 DDR 64 7.0 (no T&L) 1.3
Mirage 1 SiS 330 2004 Ultra AGP 200 266-400 2:0:4:2 400 400 800 0 32-64 2.1-6.4 (DDR)

3.2-12.8 (DDR2)

DDR

DDR2

64

128 (AMD K8 only)

7.0 (no T&L) 1.3
Mirage 2 2004 Ultra AGP 200 266-400

400–800

4:0:8:4 800 800 1600 0 32-256 2.1-6.4 (DDR)

3.2-12.8 (DDR2)

DDR

DDR2

64

128

8.1 1.4
Mirage 3 SiS 351 2006 Integrated 250 400-667 2:0:4:2 500 500 1000 0 32-256 3.2-5.3 (Intel)

3.2-12.8 (AMD)

DDR2 64

128 (AMD K8 only)

9.0 1.5
Mirage 3+ 2007 Integrated 300 400-667 2:0:4:2 600 600 1200 0 32-256 3.2-5.3 DDR2 64 9.0 1.5
Mirage 4[21][22][23][24][25][26] Never released Integrated ? 400-1066 ? ? ? ? ? ?-256 3.2-17.0 DDR2 64

128

10.0 (PS 4.0/VS 3.0) 2.0

Some cards contain a 3D graphics accelerator but it is only functional with the SiS's Proprietary Windows-only driver [27] (the company does not provide [28] 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

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

See also

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References

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  14. ^ Fink, Wesley. SiS 771 Reference Board Review, Hardware Secrets, 16 October 2006.
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  25. ^ "Updated IGP roadmap: SiS 673/772 supports DX10". TweakTown. 2007-02-10. Archived from the original on 2020-08-07. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  26. ^ TeamVR (2006-09-20). "Mirage 4 : SiS DX10 Part". Archived from the original on 2020-08-07. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  27. ^ "Onboard sis 661 fx". Archived from the original on 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
  28. ^ Thomas Winischhofer. "X.org/XFree86/Linux and SiS/XGI graphics chipsets - Part 2". Archived from the original on 2015-04-30. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
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