A significant portion of that code is now contributed by major companies, including commercial Linux distributors, consumer electronics manufacturers, and chip vendors.

Intel, Motorola, Freescale Semiconductor and other chip vendors are working on the next series of products to extend the range and flexibility of wireless networking.

With CAT-iq integrated into the Home Gateway, it is imperative that interoperability exists across different chip vendors.

Even so, the leading graphics chip vendors were producing parts for high-colour video cards within just a few months of Super VGA's introduction.

Competing sound chip vendors (such as ESS, OPTi, Crystal and others) designed their own OPL3-compatible audiochips, with varying degrees of faithfulness to the original OPL3.

Tool Vendors may supply them, usually in conjunction with multiple chip vendors to provide cross-platform development support.

And why don't the video chip vendors of the world try to commoditize the games, somehow?

Less well reported was that the company was never profitable while it was a chip vendor.

VLSI Technology is the first chip vendor to join the testing.

By 1986 most large chip vendors followed, working on efforts like the Motorola 88000, Fairchild Clipper, AMD 29000 and the PowerPC.