American Megatrends announces AMIBIOS Support for SGS-Thomson's Dedicated 486 Microprocessor.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 1996--Today, American Megatrends, Inc. (AMI) announced a technology agreement with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics to provide firmware support for its ST486 dedicated microprocessor family. AMI will provide firmware and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and support for SGS-Thomson Microelectronics' new semi-custom ST486 microprocessor to be used on low-cost, PC-based entertainment systems. The innovative combination of a high-performance graphics accelerator and a semi-custom 486 core PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). system controller offers significant benefits to OEM. The ST486 DX ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. core, coupled with AMIBIOS AMIBIOS American Megatrends, Incorporated, Basic Input/Output System 95, will build a powerful, cost-effective PC-based entertainment system. This high performance technology meets the needs of a very demanding market. "AMI is very excited about the opportunity to work with SGS SGS Société Générale de Surveillance SGS Symantec Gateway Security (appliance) SGS School of Graduate Studies SGS Subgrid Scale SGS Singapore Government Securities SGS Shell Global Solutions Thomson on this project," International Account Executive Frank Wagman stated. "We feel this product has enormous potential in the OEM community and the PC consumer market." AMIBIOS 95, with its superior power management and complete PCI architecture support, promises to fully exploit the ST486DX ASIC's tightly coupled design. The two chip PC solution includes the 486DX2/4 core, a UMA (1) (Unlicensed Mobile Access) See GAN. (2) (Upper Memory Area) Memory in a PC between 640K and 1M. More relevant in the days of DOS, this region was broken into Upper Memory Blocks (UMB) reserved for video memory and other chipset, SVGA (Super VGA) A screen resolution of 800x600 pixels. Third-party vendors extended IBM's VGA display standard and were the first to use the term. SVGA has also referred to 1,024x768 resolutions. See PC display modes. graphic engine, DRAM controller, PAL/NTSC encoder, and MPEG-2 decoder. In addition, AMIBIOS will complement the controller's single memory array structure, eliminating wasted memory by serving the graphics and 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. subsystems from one memory configuration. The ST486DX ASIC, with AMIBIOS support, has been designed for the greatest memory bandwidth and optimal system performance to offer peak system performance at minimum cost. "The technical support we received was a key factor in choosing AMI as a BIOS supplier for our ST486 Super Integration Program (SIP)," SIP Product Marketing Manager Tony Taylor stated. "This program is generating a lot of strong interest from customers due to its ability to meet customers' price and performance needs." BIOS, an acronym for Basic Input Output System, stands as the first link between hardware and software in coordinating the startup configuration of computers. Plug and play ready, AMIBIOS automatically configures the computer's hard drives, disk drives, processors, chipsets, memory, and boot-up of the operating system. Atlanta-based American Megatrends, Inc., in over half the computers in the world with its world-famous AMIBIOS, also produces a variety of software and hardware solutions. AMI can be reached at (800) 828-9264 or (770) 246-8600 and on the World Wide Web at http://www.megatrends.com. SGS-Thomson Microelectronics is a global independent semiconductor company listed on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. and on the Bourse de Paris. The company designs, develops, manufactures, and markets a broad range of semiconductor integrated circuits (ICs) and discrete devices used in a wide variety of microelectronics applications, including telecommunication systems, computer systems, consumer products, automotive products, and industrial automation and control systems. CONTACT: American Megatrends, Inc., Atlanta Joe P. Leader, 770/246-8600 or (800) 828-9264 email: JoeLeader@American.Megatrends.Com |
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