OPTi Viper-N Designed Into Compaq's Pentium Notebook Family.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 7, 1995--OPTi Inc. announced today that it is shipping the Viper-N mobile chipset for Compaq Computer Corporation's new Elite/LTE 5000 Pentium notebook computer. This recently announced product is Compaq's first in the Elite series of high performance notebook PCs to be designed and tuned for Windows 95. The OPTi Viper-N, the industry's first integrated core logic chipset for Pentium PCI-based notebook computers, offers advanced design flexibility and power management capabilities. The Viper-N is comprised of three chips that provide a complete core logic solution for notebooks. Designers now have the option to create a fully featured Pentium PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). system within the confines of the board space available in portable computers. "Our strategy was to be the first company out with a fully integrated notebook chipset for the Pentium/PCI combination," said Gene Morales, OPTi Mobile Product Marketing Manager. "We're fastest to the market, because we leveraged this design from our desktop chipset. We also included full support for Pentium's System Management Interupt (SMI (1) (Storage Management Initiative) The initiative developed by the SNIA in 2003 to create a single standard interface for storage management technologies used by multiple vendors and networking communities. ) and clock throttling to make on-the-run trade-offs between execution speed and power dissipation." OPTi Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :OPTI) is a leading supplier of core logic and multimedia sound and graphics chipsets to the personal computer industry. OPTi's innovative chipset solutions enable customers to manufacture quality, state-of-the-art products, while improving their time-to-market. Founded in 1989, the company is headquarted in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. . For more information on OPTi's products, contact 408/980-8178. CONTACT: OPTi Inc. Janice Cuban, 408/486-8212 or Oak Ridge Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Rachel Modena Barasch or Frankie Borison, 408/253-5042 |
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