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Chicony is a Taiwanese hardware manufacturer, nowadays focused on keyboard and peripheral production. From 1987 to 2000, Chicony operated a laptop divison (known as the Mobile Products (MP) Division), in which they acted as an Original Design Manufacturer (ODM), selling their laptops to various smaller companies to brand and sell. As such, rarely will you see a Chicony laptop branded as a Chicony.

Chicony's Websites: www.chicony.com, www.chicony.co.uk, www.chicony.com.tw, chicony.de

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Model List

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No Image	Chicony LT3400 Released: 1989 The LT3400 is a 286-based system. I don't have any photos that I have permission to use, but you can find several here. It was the first of their laptops to show up in FCC records, so it would have been the first sold in the USA. It's possible the LT3500 and LT3600 actually released earlier though. It's somewhat between the size of a luggable and a laptop. This one is notable as Chicony actually sold it under their own brand. This one has a VARTA barrel battery on the motherboard, just a warning!	No Image	Chicony LT3500 Released: ?? We know Chicony made an LT3400 and an LT3600. There is a laptop shown here with the LT3500 model number, and with similar lettering to the other two. I can't currently prove it's also a Chicony system, but I HIGHLY suspect that it is. Since it doesn't appear in FCC records, it was likely not sold in the US.
	Chicony LT3600 Released: ?? The Chicony LT3600 is a large luggable laptop that was actually sold with Chicony branding! It doesn't show up on FCC records, so it was likely never sold in the US. This is consistent with online references to this model, which seem to all come from Europe.	No Image	Chicony LT5400 Released: 1990 Sold direct under the Chicony brand. FCC records exist, so it was likely sold in the US, but the only eBay listing I found was in Europe. It uses the same case that the LT3400 does.
No Image	Chicony LT5300 Released: 1990 Large luggable, different design from the LT3600. Just like the LT5400, FCC records exist, but the one listing I could find was in Europe.		Chicony NB5620 Released: 1991 Very little known about this model. No specs beyond the processor: 386SX @20MHz. Earliest mentioned on Chicony's archived website.
No Image	Chicony PB9350 Released: 1991 Uses 486DX @33MHz, no other info. FCC records exist but the one site with photos up is in Europe, so they're probably more common there. It's not quite a compact laptop, but not quite a luggable either.		Chicony NB6600 Released: Unknown Another unknown, with only a mention and an image on Chicony's archived site. Uses 386SL @20MHz, no other info.
No Image	Chicony PB8350 Released: 1991 Confirmed to exist by FCC info alone. Uses 486SX @25MHz, no other info.	No Image	Chicony NB5625 Released: 1992 386 25MHz system. This one didn't show up on Chicony's website, but I found one for sale on eBay under the Ultra brand. It shares the same case as the NB5620.
	Chicony NB5500 Released: 1992 Another unknown, Chicony used the same image as the NB6600. Uses AMD386SXL @25MHz, no other info.		Chicony NB8620 Released: 1992 Chicony used the same image as the last one. There is a video of this laptop online, and I got the following info: Cyrix 486SLC @33MHz, Oak chipset, 4MB RAM onboard, VARTA soldered barrel battery (uh oh), passive matrix grayscale LCD. I'm guessing based on the photo from Chicony that there was a color model.
No Image	Chicony NB8600 Released: 1992 Confirmed to exist by FCC info alone. Uses 486 @25MHz, no other info.	No Image	Chicony NB9600 Released: 1992 Confirmed to exist by FCC info alone. Uses 486 @33MHz, no other info.
	Chicony SN8660 Released: 1993 Another unknown. Subnotebook. 486 @25MHz.	No Image	Chicony SN8650 Released: 1993 486 @33MHz according to FCC. One European site had one for sale - identical design to the SN8660, grayscale display, proprietary 4-pin PSU connector, PCMCIA, Parallel, Dock connector, other ports hidden behind doors.
No Image	Chicony SN8665 Released: 1993 Confirmed to exist by FCC info alone. Uses 486 @33MHz, no other info.		Chicony NB9800 Released: 1993 This is the Nan Tan FMA8200. No, I do not know why Chicony listed it, or if they had a hand in designing it.
No Image	Chicony NB4E Released: 1994 Confirmed to exist by FCC info alone. Uses 486 @25 or 33MHz, no other info.		Chicony NB5 Released: 1994 Weird looking but high end. Went up to DX4-100, TFT Color, ESS488 sound. See here. This model was sold by Acrobat.
No Image	Chicony SR Released: 1995 Confirmed to exist by FCC info alone. Uses 486, no other info.	No Image	Chicony SRA Released: 1995 Confirmed to exist by FCC info alone. Uses Pentium, no other info.
	Chicony NB7 Released: 1995 Canon sold this one. One generic example online had a Cyrix DX2-66 chip in it. C&T 65540 video.	No Image	Chicony SE7 Released: 1995 This one was initially only found by the FCC ID, but I then found a Zenith laptop with the matching ID (Z-Star ZPR-6950-KI, also marked "SE7D", may be the Z-Star ES). It might be one that was custom-made only for Zenith.
No Image	Chicony SE7II Released: 1995 Confirmed to exist by FCC info alone. Uses 486, no other info.		Chicony ARa/MP968 Released: 1996 Pentium ranging from 75 to 166MHz.
	Chicony MP975 Released: 1997 Pentium ranging from 75 to 200MHz, based on the NB7 design.		Chicony MP978 Released: 1997 High end desktop replacement. Pentium MMX, AMD K6/K6-2.
	Chicony MP979 Released: 1998 Pentium II version of the MP978		Chicony MP983 Released: Unknown Newer version of the MP975 design. 3-spindle, AMD support, more.
	Chicony MP996 Released: Unknown Slim Pentium II-based laptop.		Chicony MP987 Released: Unknown Pentium II version of the MP983.
	Chicony MP980 Released: Unknown Subnotebook, likely not sold in the US.		Chicony MP989 Released: Unknown The best and final version of the MP979. Bigger screen, more RAM, other improvements.
	Chicony MP982 Released: June 1999 AMD K6-2 system.		Chicony MP993 Released: June 1999 Celeron system, sharing the same case as the MP996
	Chicony MP995 Released: June 1999 Celeron system, sold for a short time before Chicony's laptop division shut down.		Chicony MP999 Released: 1999 Pentium III version of the MP989. The MP999 was Chicony's only Pentium III laptop, and it was their last laptop, released I believe in late 1999, shortly before the closure of Chicony's laptop division.