All American Announces All-Location Agreement With Asiliant Technologies.Business Editors/Technology Writers MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 2000 All American Semiconductor, Inc. (Nasdaq:SEMI), a leading national distributor of semiconductors and electronic components, today announced the all-location authorization for Asiliant Technologies (company) Asiliant Technologies - A company founded by a group of former Chips and Technologies employees with experience with the CHIPS products, suppliers, distributors and customers. Asiliant offer C&T's industry standard Flat Panel and CRT controller family. , Inc. Asiliant Technologies, a San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. based leader in Graphics Controller ICs, is a start-up company start-up company A new business. that received rights from Intel to manufacture and sell the technologies previously sold by Chips and Technologies Chips and Technologies (C&T) was the first fabless semiconductor company, a model developed by its founder Gordon Campbell. Its first product was an EGA IBM compatible graphics chip. This was followed by chipsets for PC motherboards and other computer graphics chips. prior to Chips and Technologies being acquired by Intel. Bruce M. Goldberg, President and Chief Executive Officer of All American, stated that, "Prior to Chips and Technologies being acquired by Intel, All American was the No. 1 Chips and Tech distributor in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and we are very pleased to be able to offer the Asiliant products to our customer base. Our ability to once again offer these products is significant to our company as Asiliant has a broad installed base of customers that will welcome a distributor focused on their needs. Additionally, the Asiliant product offering supports the extensive flat panel display A thin display screen for computer and TV usage. The first flat panels appeared on laptop computers in the mid-1980s, and the LCD technology became the standard. Stand-alone LCD screens became available for desktop computers in the mid-1990s and exceeded sales of CRTs for the first time program developed by All American and its Display Solutions Group." Mike Endris, Chief Executive Officer of Asiliant, stated that, "We are very pleased to add All American to our distribution program. Prior experience has proven All American very successful in combining our graphics controllers with other display products they represent." All American (www.allamerican.com) is recognized as the nation's 5th largest distributor of semiconductors and the 12th largest electronic component distributor overall. The Company has offices in 35 strategic locations throughout North America. |
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