American Megatrends Inc. Announces Next Generation of Long-Life Motherboards.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 2003 AMI resurfaces in the motherboard market with the Olympus III, based on the Intel(R) 875P "Canterwood" chipset Editorial Summary -- AMI's history of designing and manufacturing long-life motherboards continues with the Olympus III -- AMI's motherboards are known for their high-quality, tight ECN (Electronic Communications Network) A computerized, private financial trading system. Terra Nova Trading (www.terranovatrading.com) and Instinet (www.instinet.com) are examples. control, long-life span and BIOS -- its older motherboards with Pentium(R), Pentium II, Pentium III and Pentium IV chipsets are still shipping today American Megatrends Inc. (AMI), a leading provider of storage and computing innovations worldwide, today announces its Olympus III motherboard based on Intel(R)'s 875P or "Canterwood" chipset is available for shipments. The Olympus III's MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) is $279. The Olympus III (series 875) supports a single Intel Pentium 4/Prescott and dual channel DDR See SDRAM. 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. in a standard ATX See ATX motherboard. (hardware, standard) ATX - An open PC motherboard specification by Intel. ATX is a development of the Baby AT specification with the motherboard rotated 90 degrees in the chassis. form factor. The state-of-the-art motherboard combines AMI's expertise in BIOS, server board, firmware and operating system environments. Pen-Tech Associates recently signed an exclusive representative agreement to join AMI's VARBusiness 5-star Partner Program. "AMI has always had a great reputation for providing long-life, high-quality motherboards for a variety of markets, such as embedded, medical, industrial and gaming," said Dwayne Graham, president of Pen-Tech Associates. "With the range of implementations that the Olympus III can be integrated into, we felt this was a great product to fulfill our current and new customers' needs." The Olympus III offers a scalable, high-performance platform that addresses many applications. Its robust feature set and advanced design provide systems integrators and value added resellers (VARs) with the ideal motherboard solution for ISPs and telephony applications, as well as high-end imaging applications including AutoCAD, professional desktop publishing and video editing. Olympus III key features: -- 400/533/800 MHz FSB (FrontSide Bus) See system bus. FSB - front side bus -- Five 32-bit 33 MHz PCI slots -- One AGP 8X slot -- On-board ATI video -- On-board Gigabit LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. -- On-board RealTek AC Codec (sound) -- Pentium IV/Prescott processor support with Hyper-Threading -- Two 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. 2.0 ports -- Dual Serial ATA connectors -- Dual Parallel IDE ATA-100 connectors -- PS/2 mouse and PS/2 keyboard 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 also supplies state-of-the-art hardware, software and utilities to 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 An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications. The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA (SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via ). 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. Statement of Liability: Product specifications are subject to change without notice. Products mentioned may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. All rights reserved. No warranties are made, express or implied, with regard to the contents of this work, its merchantability or fitness for a particular use. This publication contains proprietary information, which is protected by copyright. American Megatrends reserves the right to update, change and/or modify this product at anytime. |
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