Graphics chip
From Academic Kids
Early graphics chips, often also referred to as Video Display Processors, were simple video adapters for generating text and computer graphics on a video computer display found in early computers and graphics cards. It was sometimes connected to a simple radio frequency adapter for interfacing with a common television receiver.
The more advanced graphics chips available today, capable of independent computation and graphics processing are nowadays generally called graphics processing units, in analogy with central processing units.
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Famous graphics chips
- Motorola 6845 (basis of the CGA and EGA boards)
- Atari Stella, ANTIC (actually a GPU), CTIA/GTIA
- Texas Instruments TMS9918 and TMS9928 (used in the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, Coleco Adam, and MSX)
- MOS Technology VIC and VIC-II
- Amiga's Fat Agnus and Denise in the Original Amiga chipset
- IBM Video Graphics Array and its clones
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See also
- Video Display Processor (VDP)
