American Megatrends Announces Development of New Atlas PCI III Motherboard.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 1997-- New Pentium Motherboard Combines Intel 430HX(TM) PCISet with AMI Compatibility and Quality American Megatrends, Inc. (AMI) announced today that development for the next version of the Atlas Series Motherboard has entered final compatibility testing. Based on the highly successful Atlas PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). II, the Atlas PCI III has increased features and has been scheduled for full production in Q2 1997. In the tradition of its predecessor, the Atlas PCI III provides support for Intel's full line of Pentium(R) processors up to the 200MHz MMX and has been equipped to support higher speed Pentium processors when they become available. Furthermore, the Atlas PCI III has support for AMD's K6 processor, making the Atlas PCI III one of the most flexible motherboards on the market. With up to 256 MB of on-board 72-pin x36, 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. , or EDO memory, the Atlas PCI III can handle today's memory intensive software with ease. The Atlas PCI III has 512KB of pipelined burst cache Pipelined Burst Cache - Pipeline Burst Cache , four PCI slots, and four ISA slots that fit on a Baby-AT footprint. Standard features on the Atlas PCI III include integrated support for 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. , parallel port, serial, floppy, PS/2 mouse, and dual channel PCI IDE connectors. "The Atlas PCI III design has implemented support for the Intel MMX technology and the Intel 430HX PCIset for maximum performance," AMI Marketing Manager Joe Leader stated. "In addition, all the PCI and ISA slots are accessible to full length cards providing greater expandability." Along with standard IDE support, the Atlas PCI III supports ATAPI (AT Attachment Packet Interface) The specification for ATA (IDE) tape drives and CD-ROMs. See IDE. ATAPI - AT Attachment Packet Interface CD-ROMs, bootable CD-ROMs, LBA mode, and enhanced IDE support. The dual PCI IDE channels support 32-bit transfers, IDE Bus Mastering, Fast ATA modes, and PIO modes 4 and 5. Additional features on the Atlas PCI III include AMIBIOS AMIBIOS American Megatrends, Incorporated, Basic Input/Output System WINBIOS in a Flash EPROM, a watch dog timer, power-good generation, and on-board 3.3V Voltage regulator. American Megatrends offers a full line of RAID hardware and utilities in addition to producing a variety of hardware and software solutions including motherboards, BIOS, software utilities, 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, and keyboard controllers. AMI can be reached at (800) 828-9264 or (770) 246-8600 and on the World Wide Web at www.ami.com . CONTACT: American Megatrends, Inc. Joe P. Leader, 770/246-8600 800/828-9264 FAX: 770/246-8790 email: joe@ami.Com |
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