Award Software's Welder Appointed to PCMCIA Board of Directors.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 1996--Award Software International, Inc. today announced the election of Dean Welder, Award's director of technical marketing, to a board seat of the 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. (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (body, hardware, standard) Personal Computer Memory Card International Association - (PCMCIA, or "PC Card") An international trade association and the standards they have developed for devicies, such as modems and external hard disk drives, that can be plugged into notebook ). Based in Sunnyvale, Calif., the PCMCIA group is a voluntary non-profit trade association of personal computer industry manufacturers, such as Compaq, Intel and Microsoft. The association determines standards for PC Cards and enabling software. "We are most pleased with Dean's election to the PCMCIA board," said George Huang, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Award. "His election signifies not only Dean's contributions to the association but also Award's growing significance to the PC industry." Welder, 29, currently serves as a chairperson of the Card and Socket Services Working Group. He is also co-author of The PCMCIA Developers Guide, a technical reference work for the development of PC Card technology. Welder earned his BS of Computer Science degree from San Jose State University. He is married and lives in Boulder Creek, Calif. Founded in 1983, Award Software International, Inc. designs, publishes and markets System Management Software including BIOS and PCMCIA for personal, mobile and wireless computing and communications devices worldwide. It is a member of PCMCIA, 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. and the DMTF committees and actively focuses on expanding the each association's worldwide acceptance. Award's customers rank among the world's leaders in microprocessors, personal computers, peripherals and communication devices such as IBM, Intel, Toshiba, AT&T, 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. , Samsung, AST (AST Computer, Irvine, CA) A PC manufacturer founded in 1980 by Albert Wong, Safi Quershey and Tom Yuen (A, S and T). It offered a complete line of PCs that sold through its dealer channel. and National Semiconductor. CONTACT: Award Software International Inc. Jeffrey Flink, 415/968-4433 or Media One Cordell Koland, 415/390-0209 |
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