AOpen Tops Its Own Award Winning Motherboard With Its Successor, the AX33.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2000 Socket 370 Dual 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. Capability Boosts Celeron/Pentium III-Based Motherboard Performance for VARs' and Resellers' Customers AOpen America, Inc. today announced the newest member of its popular Socket 370 Intel Celeron/Pentium III motherboard family, the AX33 as the successor to its award-winning AX63Pro. This new motherboard gives AOpen's channel partners a greater offering of price/performance to their customers from one superbly engineered design. In addition to the AX33's Socket 370 capability, the board incorporates Analog Devices AD1885 AC'97 CODEC sound chip, VIA's VT82C693A/686A AGPset, and on-board memory capability of up to 768 Megabytes of SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. . The AX33 also boasts a rich complement of on-board input/output capability including serial/parallel ports, 2 channel E-IDE, floppy drive connector, 4 channel 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. bus ports, mouse and keyboard ports plus Game/Midi/audio ports. The on-board real-time clock (RTC See real time clock. ), 3V lithium battery, and Ultra DMA/66 HDD (Hard Disk Drive) See hard disk and HDD caddy. HDD - hard disk drive support (including the cable) round out this feature-rich board. The AX33 also includes AOpen's award-winning Plug and Play (PnP) 2 Megabyte Flash ROM BIOS. The motherboard's flexibility for various applications is demonstrated by its expansion slots -- an AMR (1) (Adaptive Multi-Rate) A variable rate speech codec selected by the 3GPP for the 3G evolution of the GSM cellphone system (WCDMA). Using the Algebraic CELP (ACELP) compression technology, AMR provides toll quality sound at transmission rates from 4.75 to 12. slot, 6 PCI slots and an AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) A high-speed 32-bit port from Intel for attaching a display adapter to a PC. It provides a direct connection between the card and memory, and only one AGP slot is on the motherboard. slot for expansion. This board design can be overclocked to 12X, supporting Pentium III CPUs in excess of 1 GHz clock speeds. "AOpen is driven by a dual strategy -- offering high performance products and delivering the highest levels of product and service quality in the industry," said Paul Su, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of AOpen America, Inc. "It's not enough to have the best clock speeds or street price, you need to have world-class product quality and service levels that make customers want to come back time and time again." Pricing and availability All products are available now through AOpen's channel partners. The products are retail priced at $95.00 USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. including a one year warranty. The AX33 also includes a CD Bonus Pack including Norton's popular anti-virus utility. About AOpen America Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., AOpen America is the world's largest total component solutions manufacturer and a member of an $8.5 billion technology group. Leveraging more than 23 years of technology manufacturing experience and more than 1,000 Group patents, AOpen designs, develops and markets advanced PC motherboards, optical drives, PC housings, peripherals, multimedia and networking solutions for resellers, system integrators and those who value reliability and performance. Note to Editors: More information about AOpen, AOpen Products, services, and business partners is available on the World Wide Web at: www.AOpenUSA.com. AOpen is a registered trademark of AOpen Inc. All other products, brand names or companies are trademarks or registered marks of their respective companies. |
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