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AMI announces support for Upcoming AMD Opteron™ and eighth-generation AMD Athlon™ processor-based platforms

Tuesday: June 4, 2002

Editorial Summary:

  • AMIBIOS8 support is available on AMD Opteron™ and eighth-generation AMD Athlon™
  • ''Our shared customers benefit from the collaborative relationship between AMI and AMD,'' said Rich Heye, vice president platform engineering and infrastructure, AMD.

ATLANTA (Tuesday, June 4th, 2002) - American Megatrends Inc. (AMI), a leading developer of computing and storage solutions, today announced full support for the AMD Opteron™ and eighth-generation AMD Athlon™ processors with AMIBIOS8.

“We have been working with AMD for several months and are on track to provide motherboard manufacturers with advanced, reliable and stable BIOS technology to support AMD Opteron and eighth-generation AMD Athlon processors,” said Bill Clark, AMI’s strategic account manager.

The AMIBIOS8 modular design eases porting on new technologies and chipsets, allowing AMIBIOS8 to serve desktop, notebook, mobile and embedded PC architectures. AMIBIOS8 is composed by a far lower number of files than ordi

About AMI : Founded in 1985 and known worldwide for AMIBIOS®, American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) supplies state-of-the-art hardware, software, and utilities to top-tier manufacturers of desktop, server, mobile and embedded systems. AMI’s industry leading Aptio® V UEFI BIOS firmware, innovative StorTrends® Network Storage hardware and software products and MegaRAC® remote server management solutions continue to garner industry acclaim and awards around the world. In line with the diversity of its technology and product line, AMI is a member of a number of industry associations and standards groups, such as the Unified EFI Forum (UEFI), the Intel® Intelligent Systems Alliance and the Trusted Computing Group (TCG). Headquartered in Norcross, Georgia, AMI has locations in the U.S., China, Germany, India, Japan, Korea and Taiwan to better serve its customers.


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