ADVANTAGE MEMORY CORPORATION TAKES NEW APPLE POWER MAC 9500 TO 768MB OF MEMORY -- NEW DRAM STANDARD NOW SHIPPING.IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 1995--Advantage Memory Corporation today announces memory upgrades for the new line of Apple Computers. The Power Mac 9500 announced yesterday by Apple Computer uses the newly created DIMM (Dual In-Line Memory Module) A printed circuit board that holds memory chips and plugs into a DIMM socket on the motherboard. See memory module. DIMM - Dual In-Line Memory Module technology which addresses up to 768 MB of RAM. The memory modules, called dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs), use 64-bit technology and are built with 16 meg or 4 meg DRAM. DIMMs are expected to replace SIMMs as the memory standard in high performance machines because they provide more flexible RAM upgrades and performance enhancements. They are presently being developed and evaluated for RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. machines, Power PC systems, high-powered notebook computers, and the Power Macintosh See Power Mac. (computer) Power Macintosh - Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Macintosh systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. . The new line of DIMMs, manufactured by Advantage Memory, are now shipping. They come in configurations from 8 to 64 Mbytes and are slightly larger than conventional SIMMs. The Apple Power Mac 9500 has 12 sockets, which can accommodate up to 768 Mbytes RAM. Users who wish to take full advantage of the available RAM sockets can expect to pay $46,000 for the full upgrade. 128 MB DIMMs will be shipping in the next few months. The 128 MB DIMMs will allow Apple's newest Power Mac system to be expanded to 1.5 Gbytes of RAM. Advantage Memory, in addition to a full line of 168-pin DIMMs, will offer a 72-pin SO (Small Outline) DIMM, designed specifically for high-powered notebook PCs. SO DIMMs are currently being used by Dell, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and Toshiba in some of their high-performance notebook lines and are expected to be adopted by most computer system manufacturers. Processing speed See MHz. will also be enhanced through memory interleaving. Using an interleaving interleaving - sector interleave scheme, the processor addresses two RAM modules as one unified bank and alternates each bit of data written on both modules. Performance is increased because during the read process one bit can be located and readied for transfer while the other bit is passed to the CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. . List pricing, like all memory upgrade products, will fluctuate. Advantage Memory expects 8 to 64 MByte DIMMs to range from $399 to $3,900. The DIMM modules will be backed by Advantage Memory's lifetime warranty. Advantage warrants the original purchaser of its products that it is free of defects in materials and workmanship for the life of the product from the date of purchase from an authorized dealer. Advantage Memory, founded in 1990, is part of Reedman reed·man n. A player of reeds, especially a jazz saxophonist or jazz clarinetist. Industries, a $50 million high technology holding company headquartered in Irvine, Calif. Advantage Memory manufactures computer memory upgrade products for PCs, notebook and laser printers. Advantage Memory Corporation, 25A Technology Drive, Building 1, Irvine, CA, 92718, 714-453-8111, 800-245-5299, 714-453-8158 fax. CONTACT: Advantage Memory Corporation Len Fernandes, 510/538-8916 lenf@hooked.net Jennifer Levine 714-489-5707 jenlevine@aol.com |
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