American Megatrends' Enterprise64 and MegaRAC PM Selected by Celestica as the Core and Management Firmware for its Enterprise Systems.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 2004

Editorial Summary

-- AMI teams up with Celestica to serve it as a full solution,

one-stop-shop, technology provider

-- Celestica has selected AMI's Enterprise64 as the core firmware

for its designs based on the Intel(R) Itanium(R) Family

processor

-- AMI's MegaRAC PM will also be added to Celestica's product

offering to provide its customers with IPMI functionality

American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) today announced that Celestica, a world leader in electronics manufacturing services, selected AMI's Enterprise 64 and MegaRAC(TM) PM as the core and management firmware for its systems based on the Intel(R) Itanium(R) Family.

Celestica will integrate AMI's Enterprise64 system software into its server reference design based on the Intel(R) Itanium(R) Family. AMI will also provide Celestica with the MegaRAC PM management firmware, an IPMI 1.5 compliant solution with standard IPMI features such as system health monitoring and corrective actions like power on/off, system reset, as well as extended features such as BIOS flashing and text redirection over LAN.

"We are excited to announce that by integrating AMI's Enterprise64 and MegaRAC PM into our server reference designs, we are delivering a world-class server offering to our customers," said Steve Van Binsbergen, vice president and general manager, Computing Systems Unit, Celestica. "This relationship will enhance our server offering by adding further manageability, flexibility and scalability that will meet the needs of our customers."

Celestica's Computing Systems Unit was created to support the evolving model of Celestica's key OEM customers by providing them with services such as the design and manufacture of reference designs in the server and workstation markets. Celestica's technology implementations include Intel(R) Itanium(R) processor family, as well as Intel(R) Xeon(TM) processor based platforms that support Intel's newly announced 64-bit extensions.

"We are excited with this opportunity to work with Celestica. The company has extensive design and global production capabilities spanning from entry to enterprise level. Our partnership, which began with Celestica's selection of AMIBIOS8 for an embedded system project, has now been extended to AMI serving as a one-stop-shop for Celestica's core firmware and management needs," said S. Shankar, AMI president.

AMI Enterprise64 system software enables 64-bit servers to fully implement the high-performance capabilities of the Intel Itanium Processor Family (IPF). The software is highly scalable, and has capability to configure a system that supports up to four processors without requiring any changes to the BIOS or without recompiling the firmware.

Enterprise64 empowers the user with the ability to add CPUs, CPU modules and I/O modules at any time without requiring any changes. With this in place, system builders have the flexibility to ship the same BIOS on differently configured systems without changing the BIOS.

AMI's firmware technology improves the capabilities of today's architectures, creates headroom for performance-intensive applications and delivers unmatched investment protection. AMI's IPF Firmware solution includes:

-- Firmware

-- SAL (System Abstraction Layer)

-- IA-32 Legacy support

-- Enhanced EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) version

-- IPF BIOS built-in diagnostics

-- IPF BIOS developer tools, including:

-- Merge64, AMIFlash

The MegaRAC PM system management solution fully implements the system monitoring and alerting structures described by the IPMI 1.5 specification. When MegaRAC PM is used in conjunction with AMI Unified Management Server software and with AMIBIOS8 it provides value-add features such as video redirection and BIOS flashing.

About AMI

Founded in 1985, American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) has dedicated its resources to providing OEMs, resellers and systems integrators with leading edge computer technologies. Privately held, AMI is best known for its BIOS, but it also supplies state-of-the-art hardware, software and utilities to over 55 percent of today's high-tech manufacturers. AMI offers high-density motherboards, disk subsystems and innovative storage solutions and is a voting member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). Headquartered in Atlanta, AMI has locations in the U.S. and throughout the world including Chennai, Munich, Seoul, Taipei and Tokyo to better serve its customers. For more information on AMI products and services, call 1-800-U-BUY-AMI or visit www.ami.com.

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