AMI's Merlin motherboard onboard PC Magazine's Editors' Choice.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 1996--American Megatrends, Inc. (AMI) announced that its Merlin Pentium Pro motherboard clinched the PC Magazine's Editors' Choice onboard the SAG Electronics' STA Pro 200 Desktop' computer. AMI's Merlin Pentium Pro motherboard's superior performance and features secured STA Pro 200 Desktop's achievement of PC Maganize's highest award. Merlin's features differentiate it from other Pentium(R) Pro motherboards with its on-board Universal Serial Bus See USB. (hardware, standard) Universal Serial Bus - (USB) An external peripheral interface standard for communication between a computer and external peripherals over an inexpensive cable using biserial transmission. (USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. ) connectors, optional ROM socket, 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. overheat alarm, 3.3V voltage regulator, and system watchdog timer. PC Magazine stated "Components such as the AMI Merlin motherboard using Intel's Natoma chipset (which supports EDO DRAM and error-correction parity memory) helped the unit post some of this roundup's highest scores..." PC Magazine also made a special note about Merlin's USB-compatibility. The USB connectors have been implemented through two four-pin connectors integrated onto the motherboard. The Merlin motherboard, the first production AMI motherboard to ship with USB connectors on-board, has made this advanced future technology available now. Merlin also offers an integrated system watchdog timer, which automatically reboots the computer if the computer locks up or freezes. National Sales Manager, Jeff Hanson stated, "Merlin has performance and features other motherboards lack. Realizing this, SAG Electronics integrated the Merlin motherboard into their system and secured the PC Magazine's Editor's Choice." Merlin can support up to 512 MB of on-board memory using x32 or x36 SIMMs utilizing ECC (1) (Error-Correcting Code) A type of memory that corrects errors on the fly. See ECC memory. (2) (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) A public key cryptography method that provides fast decryption and digital signature processing. , memory parity, EDO Edo: see Tokyo, Japan. , Fast Page, Burst EDO memory. Merlin's standard features include four PCI bus master slots, four ISA slots, integrated I/O (including serial, EPP/ECP parallel, floppy, and PS/2 mouse), and an integrated dual channel enhanced PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). IDE with PIO mode 4 support. Founded in 1985, Atlanta-based American Megatrends, Inc., in over half the computers in the world with its world-famous AMIBIOS AMIBIOS American Megatrends, Incorporated, Basic Input/Output System , also produces a variety of software and hardware solutions including utility software, keyboard controllers, PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card. software, motherboards, and RAID controllers. AMI can be reached at 800/828-9264 or 770/246-8600 and on the World Wide Web at http://www.megatrends.com. CONTACT: America Megatrends, Inc., Atlanta Joe P. Leader, AMI Marketing Manager 800/828-9264 or 770/246-8600 (voice) 770/246-8790 (fax) email: joeleader@american.megatrends.com |
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