American Megatrends Inc. Sells Discounted EOL Products at AMIdiscount.com.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 2001 Editorial Summary -- AMIdiscount.com offers a 50 percent price break on discontinued and over-stocked products -- MegaRAID(R) IDE66 -- normally $79, now $39.95 -- Megathon(TM) motherboard -- normally $129, now $64.95 -- MegaRAID(R) Enterprise 1200 (single channel) -- normally $399, now $199.95 American Megatrends Inc. (AMI), the leader in storage and computing innovations worldwide, today unveiled AMIdiscount.com -- offering customers End of Life (EOL (1) (End Of Line) A character that signals the end of the current line of text or commands. (2) (End Of Life) Refers to the planned demise of a hardware or software product due to its natural evolution from utility to ) products at extremely reduced rates. "AMIdiscount.com's product offerings include top quality, EOL products at amazing prices," said Jim Evans, AMI Marketing Communications Manager. "This new web site features fast and dependable products backed by services unprecedented in the industry, and gives customers insurance and peace-of-mind with its secure transactions." The products offered on AMIdiscount.com include the MegaRAID Enterprise 1200 single-channel RAID controller, Megathon motherboard and MegaRAID IDE66 controller. All products sold on the discounted site will have a 30-day warranty. A single channel configuration of the MegaRAID Enterprise 1200, with advanced SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. RAID performance and fault-tolerance, is available at AMIdiscount.com for $199.95. The enterprise-level controller offers 4 MB of intelligent cache memory. This high-performance controller supports a wide range of operating systems, including Windows NT/2000, NetWare, RedHat Linux, OS2 Warp, SCO Unix, Solaris and UnixWare. Megathon is the ideal solution for customers who demand the best in x86 computing platforms. It features the AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. Athlon processor at 500 to 750+ MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. with 200 MHz FSB (FrontSide Bus) See system bus. FSB - front side bus and includes three DIMM (Dual In-Line Memory Module) A printed circuit board that holds memory chips and plugs into a DIMM socket on the motherboard. See memory module. DIMM - Dual In-Line Memory Module Sockets for up to 768 MB 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. 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. memory support. Customers can buy this board at AMIdiscount.com for $64.95. MegaRAID IDE66 is AMI's solution for desktops, workstations and entry-level servers. IDE RAID, a simple and cost-effective way to increase the capability of IDE hard disk drives, allows users to double drive performance or data security at a fraction of the overall cost of SCSI RAID. AMIdiscount.com now offers IDE66 at only $39.95. 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 or BIOS, also supplies 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, Munich, Seoul, Taipei and Tokyo to better serve our customers. For more information on AMI, its products, services or reseller opportunities, call 1-800-U-BUY-AMI or visit www.ami.com. All registered trademarks are property of their respected companies |
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