American Megatrends Inc. Announces Support for Transmeta Corporation's 3200 and 5400 Processors.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2000
Editorial Summary
-- AMIBIOS Mobile supports the Transmeta 3200 and 5400
processors
-- AMIBIOS together with Transmeta processors offer industry
leading power management for mobile Internet appliances
and other emerging markets.
American Megatrends American Megatrends Incorporated (AMI) is a Georgia, USA based hardware company that creates PC hardware and firmware. It was founded in 1985 by the current chairman and president, S. Shankar. Inc. (AMI), the leader in storage and computing innovations worldwide, today announced AMIBIOS AMIBIOS American Megatrends, Incorporated, Basic Input/Output System Mobile will support the Transmeta 3200 and 5400 Processors. "American Megatrends has long been known for its BIOS innovations and this is no exception," said Mark Huffman, Director of Sales, Software Division. "By supporting the Transmeta 3200 and 5400 processors, AMIBIOS Mobile and the processor will be able to dramatically extend the battery life of portable computers." AMIBIOS Mobile is designed to exceed the demands of today's notebooks and incorporate tomorrow's technologies. AMIBIOS Mobile offers the most advanced features and initiatives currently available. AMI has contracted with several major manufacturers to supply AMIBIOS Mobile for their mobile Internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV. appliances and other emerging technologies that use the 3200 and 5400 processors. Mobile computers are very demanding on their power source. AMIBIOS and Transmeta together contribute to the overall enhancement of the power management platform by reducing the power consumption and reduction of overall temperature. With less power consumed by the 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. , application performance is enhanced and battery life extended. 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. This privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , best known for its Basic Input/Output Systems (operating system) Basic Input/Output System - (BIOS, ROM BIOS) The part of the system software of the IBM PC and compatibles that provides the lowest level interface to peripheral devices and controls the first stage of the bootstrap process, including installing the operating or BIOS, also supplies its state-of-the-art hardware, software, utilities and RAID controllers to over 55 percent of today's high-tech manufacturers. Headquartered in Atlanta, AMI has locations in the U.S. and throughout the world including London, Madras Madras. 1 State and former province, India: see Tamil Nadu. 2 City, India: see Chennai. , Munich, Seoul, Taipei and Tokyo to better serve our customers. For more information on AMI, its products or services, call 1-800-U-BUY-AMI or www.ami.com. |
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