AA Chipset
The AA+ chipset was a planned Amiga-compatible chipset that Commodore International announced in 1992. There were two separate projects: the next generation Advanced Amiga Architecture chipset and the lower cost, more pragmatic AA+ chipset. The former was in development when Commodore declared bankruptcy; the latter existed only on paper. Both were cancelled when Commodore folded. History In 1991 Commodore realized that AAA cost was going high, so they postponed it until 1994 and hesitantly designed AGA and released it in 1992 to keep up with the competitors. Commodore was convinced that even in 1994 AAA systems with their four custom chips (six chips in the 64-bit systems) would be very expensive to use in a low price A1200 like computer or CD32 like console. So unlike Commodore's habit of designing one custom chip for both high end and low end computers to save development costs, Commodore decided to design two custom chips: AAA for the high end computers and AA+ for the low en ...
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