AMI DELIVERS 2MIL CONTROL LOGIC ASICS FOR MOBILE PENTIUM III.American Microsystems Inc. (AMI) has delivered 2 million control-logic application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for use with the Intel(R) mobile Pentium(R) III processors featuring Intel SpeedStep technology. The company expects to ship a total of nearly 3 million of the ASICs by the end of 2000. When used in conjunction with the mobile Pentium III processor, which features the Intel SpeedStep technology, the ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. can help extend battery life of mobile personal computers by allowing the processor to run at a lower speed and voltage when operating on battery. With it, the mobile PC can reduce its power needs by 45 percent while maintaining up to 80 percent of maximum performance. When the mobile PC detects a change in its power source from battery to wall sockets, the ASIC provides the appropriate control signals to increase the processor speed and voltage levels maximum performance. "Speed and quality are critical in order to meet the phenomenal demand for mobile Pentium III processors," said Keith Mayer, AMI Translation ASIC program manager. "AMI met Intel's requirements while translating the design from another ASIC netlist to quickly produce this large order of ASICs. AMI's translation ASIC service, which uses its proprietary NETRANS software, made second-sourcing of this ASIC a smooth transition." Intel pre-approved and qualified AMI's process technology for their products and for Intel-approved ASIC original equipment manufacturer (OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and ) buyers. The ASICs are shipped directly to Intel and to the notebook manufacturers in Taiwan and Korea that make laptops for Toshiba, 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) , Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Sony, Hewlett-Packard, Gateway, Hitachi and Samsung. American Microsystems Inc., headquartered in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. , pioneered the development of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) in 1966. Over the last 34 years, AMI has remained a leading ASIC supplier committed to providing the best total solutions that employ the latest digital and analog capabilities. AMI offers a broad range of digital and mixed-signal ASICs, FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. and ASIC translation services, mixed-signal application-specific standard products (ASSPs), and CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. foundry services with unprecedented design-to-production time spans. |
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