ALi's ALiMAGiK1 and 1.33GHz AMD Athlon Processor Push Performance to a New Horizon at CeBIT 2001 and WinHEC.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2001

ALiMAGiK 1 Outperforms Industry Expectation on 1.33GHz AMD 

Athlon(TM) Processor

Acer Laboratories Inc. (ALi), a pioneer in delivering DDR chipsets supporting AMD (NYSE: AMD) Athlon(TM) and AMD Duron(TM) processors proudly presents robust system level performances of its ALiMAGiK 1, supporting AMD's 1.3/1.33 GHz microprocessors, this week, March 22 - 28, 2001, at CeBIT, Hanover, Germany, (ALi booth No. B70, Hall 13; AMD booth No. D08, Hall 13) and again, next week, March 25 - 28, 2001, at WinHEC, Anaheim, CA, (ALi booth No. 137; AMD booth No. 200).

ALiMAGiK 1 is now the industry's fastest DDR system chipset available in the market, with Front Side Bus(FSB) support up to 266 megatransfer and memory speed up to 266 MHz. This has been made possible through AMD's premier level microprocessor - the 1.33GHz AMD Athlon processor. The ALiMAGiK 1 chipset on the ASUS board A7A266, which recently received the highest honor award from AMD3D.Com, will be on display at CeBIT and WinHEC.

From production standpoint, ALiMAGiK 1 offers the most cost-effective and highest performing chipset available for standalone systems. From a memory standpoint, ALiMAGiK 1 has the ability to support all mainstream DDR/SDR memory configurations up to 3GB. It also supports AGP 1X/2X/4X. To top it of ALi's renowned southbridge-M1535D+ completes this remarkable chipset solution.

"AMD is extremely proud to lead the PC industry, once again, in setting performance records with AMD Athlon processors and DDR memory-based systems. We hope to continue down this path with industry partners such as ALi, who deliver innovative infrastructure products like the ALIMAGiK 1, for our Socket A processors," said Richard Heye, Vice President of AMD's Platform & Infrastructure Engineering & Microprocessor Business Management.

"Through the years, ALi has mastered generations of chipsets supporting AMD CPUs. The ALiMAGiK 1 supporting the 1.3GHz and 1.33GHz AMD Athlon processors has further proven ALi's commitment to work closely with industry partners such as AMD to lead the market with revolutionary products," said Dr. Chin Wu, President of ALi.

About ALi

ALi (Acer Laboratories Inc.) is one of the world's leading suppliers of integrated circuits for a number of market segments including personal computers, PC peripherals, DVD players and embedded PC systems and appliances. Its product offerings include core logic chip sets, DVD products, and imaging peripherals. ALi was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with its North American/European operations based in San Jose, California. ALi is available on the web http://www.ali.com.tw.