A 10.5MHz or 21MHz (depending on version)
RISC co-processor chip present inside the
cartridge of some of the more graphically enhanced
SNES games.
StarFox and
Yoshi's Island are the most well-known games that featured this
chip. The SuperFX chip enabled advanced (for its time) polygon and 3D graphics on the
SNES. Emulation of this chip in
emulators such as
SNES9x allowed previously un-emulatable games to work.