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Super I/O
Class of I/O controller integrated circuits / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Super I/O (sometimes Multi-IO)[1] is a class of I/O controller integrated circuits that began to be used on personal computer motherboards in the late 1980s, originally as add-in cards, later embedded on the motherboards. A super I/O chip combines interfaces for a variety of low-bandwidth devices. Now it is mostly merged with EC.
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