ALi Announces Plans for Chip Set with Support for the Next-Generation AMD Athlon Processor.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 9, 1999-- Acer Laboratories, Inc. (ALi) announced today its plans for a Core Logic Chip Set to support the new AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. Athlon(TM) processor. The AMD Athlon processor, in combination with this Chip Set from ALi, will bring to the computing enthusiast's and business user's desktop a hardware platform that is unparalleled in computing capabilities. ALi's Chip Set for the AMD Athlon processor will be a highly integrated solution providing full performance for the AMD Athlon processor at a very competitive price. This product will combine ALi's expertise in Northbridge technology and architecture with its highly integrated Southbridge family to provide exceptional performance to desktop systems. Included in the chipset will be support for PC-133, DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory , 4XAGP, and UDMA (Ultra DMA) See Ultra ATA. UDMA - ATA-4 66/100. The AMD Athlon processor is an x86-compatible, seventh-generation design featuring a superpipelined, nine-issue superscalar A CPU architecture that allows more than one instruction to be executed in one clock cycle. See pipeline processing. (architecture) superscalar - A superscalar architecture is a uniprocessor that can execute two or more scalar operations in parallel. microarchitecture optimized for high clock frequency; the industry's first fully pipelined, superscalar floating point unit for x86 platforms; high-performance cache technology, including 128KB of on-chip level one (L1) cache and a programmable, high-performance backside L2 cache (Level 2 cache) A memory bank built into the CPU chip, packaged within the same module or built on the motherboard. The L2 cache feeds the L1 cache, and its memory is slower than L1 memory. The L2 cache feeds the L1 cache, which feeds the processor. interface; enhanced 3DNow!(TM) technology and multimedia performance; and the AMD Athlon processor system bus -- a 200-MHz system interface based on the Alpha EV6 bus protocol with support for scalable multiprocessing. The initial versions of the AMD Athlon processor are manufactured on AMD's 0.25-micron process technology in Fab 25 in Austin, Texas. About ALi ALi (Acer Laboratories Inc.), founded in 1987, is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with its North American/European operations out of its office in San Jose. Since its establishment, ALi has provided highly integrated, cost-effective and innovative IC products to support personal computer system and subsystem manufacturers. ALi is not only one of the world's oldest and largest system core logic manufacturers but is also a world-class provider of other PC peripheral products, such as graphics and multimedia chips, Super I/O "Super I/O" is the name given to a class of I/O controller integrated circuits that began to be used on personal computer motherboards in the late 1980s. A super I/O chip combines interfaces for a variety of low-bandwidth devices. controllers and CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). controllers. ALi is capable of developing a wide range of products to support a variety of CPUs, including the X86 families up through 64-bit CPUs, such as the Pentium Pro, Pentium, M1, M2, K5, K6, as well as the industry standard buses. The company employs 400 people and expects revenues of $130 million in 1999. About AMD AMD is a global supplier of integrated circuits for the personal and networked computer and communications markets. AMD produces microprocessors, flash memories, and integrated circuits for communications and networking applications. Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, Calif., AMD had revenues of $2.5 billion in 1998. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AMD). Note to Editors: ALi is a trademark of Acer Laboratories Inc. AMD, the AMD logo, AMD Athlon and combinations thereof and 3DNow!(TM) are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. |
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