American Megatrends Announces Aptio®4.x and AMIBIOS®8 Support for the Intel® Q45 Express Chipset and Intel® 3210 Chipset in Embedded Applications
Monday: October 20, 2008
Editorial Summary:
- AMI firmware solutions support embedded platforms using the Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q9400 with the Intel® Q45 Express chipset and Intel® 3210 chipset
- Aptio 4.x and AMIBIOS8 continue to provide superior support for Intel® platforms in the embedded & communications markets
- The 45nm Intel Core2 Quad Processor Q9400 is ideal for a wide variety of embedded applications that require a high performance processor
ATLANTA, GEORGIA - American Megatrends is pleased to announce that its Aptio®4.x UEFI and AMIBIOS 8 firmware solutions support embedded platforms using the Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q9400 with the Intel® Q45 Express chipset or the Intel® 3210 chipset.
"As Intel continues to offer more innovative embedded solutions, Aptio and AMIBIOS8 continue to show strength in this ever expanding market," said S. Shankar, President and CEO of American Megatrends. "Intel’s delivery of a quad-core solution to the embedded and communications market enables American Megatrends to provide our BIOS and UEFI solutions to a new class of customer."
The Intel Q45 Express chipset adds Intel Active Management Technology 5.0 (Intel® AMT 5.0), the latest graphics core and the data protection of Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT) to the 45nm Intel Core2 Quad processor Q9400 platform. This platform is ideal for hospitality, gaming, digital imaging and signage applications that require high quality graphics, intensive processing power and network manageability.
Platforms using the Intel Core2 Quad processor Q9400 with the Intel 3210 chipset combine higher I/O performance and Error Correcting Code (ECC) memory with the multi-threaded 45nm processor. This platform combination is ideal for customers who need server-class memory performance in an embedded server, storage or security application.
"Two Intel® chipsets and the quad-core processor Q9400 are now supported for a 7-year life cycle for our embedded customers," said Ryan Parker, director of marketing, Embedded Computing Division, Intel. "These platforms enable American Megatrends’ customers to create a wide variety of high performance embedded systems with UEFI and BIOS solutions."
AMIBIOS8 is built around Visual eBIOS (VeB), the innovative development environment designed specifically for BIOS porting. VeB was released with the original AMIBIOS8 in 2001 and continues to simplify BIOS development worldwide by removing barriers normally associated with BIOS development in the command line environment. Aptio builds on that experience, providing next-generation BIOS firmware based on Unified EFI (UEFI) and the Intel® Platform Innovation Framework for EFI.
AMI will showcase a number of new products at the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei, Taiwan (October 20-21, 2008). A variety of AMI solutions for Intel platforms will be on display at Taipei International Convention Center in booth A54.
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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