ADVISORY/PMC-Sierra Demonstrates 1.5 and 3G Gigabit-Serial Interconnect at Serial ATA / Serial ATA II Plugfest.Business Editors & Technology Writers ADVISORY...For Monday (March 15) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
WHAT: PMC-Sierra (Nasdaq:PMCS) will demonstrate its PM8380
QuadSMX(TM) four channel 1.5 and 3G Gigabit-serial
interconnect supporting Serial ATA (SATA), Serial ATA
II (SATA II), and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) industry
standards for storage system and hard disk drive
interfaces. The PM8380 QuadSMX, part of PMC Sierra's
family of storage solutions, is fully compliant with
the SATA / SATA II specification and compatible with
SATA I / SATA II host bus controllers and hard drives.
WHEN: March 15 to 17, 2004
WHERE: Raintree Hotel, Longmont, Colorado
About The Serial ATA See SATA. Serial ATA - Serial Advanced Technology Attachment / Serial ATA II Plugfest The Serial ATA / Serial ATA II Plugfest brings companies who are working on Serial ATA together in one place at one time in order to make it easy for them to quickly assess the health of their product through interoperability testing. As SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. products are deployed into the market, it is critical that industry suppliers work together to ensure proper operation and interoperability. The Plugfest is open to all companies working on Serial ATA and Serial ATA II compatible products - including system and motherboard vendors, host bus adapter See host adapter. vendors, hard drive vendors, optical drive vendors (ATAPI (AT Attachment Packet Interface) The specification for ATA (IDE) tape drives and CD-ROMs. See IDE. ATAPI - AT Attachment Packet Interface ), cable vendors, silicon vendors, storage enclosure vendors, OS vendors, BIOS vendors, and test tool vendors. For more information, visit www.serialata.org/index.shtml. About PMC-Sierra PMC-Sierra(TM) is a leading provider of high speed broadband communications and storage semiconductors and MIPS-based(TM) microprocessors for Enterprise, Access, Metro Optical Transport, Storage Area Networking and Wireless network equipment. The company offers worldwide technical and sales support, including a network of offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. The company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. under the PMCS PMCS PMC Sierra (stock symbol) PMCS Project Management Control System PMCS partial mission-capable, supply (US DoD) PMCS Preventive Maintenance Checks & Services PMCS Professional Military Comptroller School symbol and is included in the S&P 500 Index. For more information, visit www.pmc-sierra.com. (C) Copyright PMC-Sierra, Inc. 2004. All rights reserved. PMC-Sierra, PMC (1) See Portable Media Center. (2) (PCI Mezzanine Card) A PCI-based mezzanine card that is widely adapted to VMEbus, CompactPCI and PCI cards. , PMCS and QuadSMX are trademarks of PMC-Sierra, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of the respective owners. |
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