American Megatrends introduces MegaRAC® PM for the Renesas H8S/2462 Baseboard Management Controller

Friday: June 12, 2009

Editorial Summary:

• MegaRAC® PM IPMI firmware stack provides firmware support for upcoming Renesas H8S/2462 controllers, featuring a dedicated NIC interface internal to the BMC

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – American Megatrends, a leader in storage and computing innovations, introduced today a newly enhanced IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) stack, the MegaRAC PM 4.0, which supports the new Renesas Technology Corp. H8S/2462 Baseboard Management Controllers (BMC) with dedicated Network Interface Controller.

" AMI’s MegaRAC® PM Firmware for IPMI management is utilized by industry leading OEMs to differentiate their products based on innovation in design and server management. The combination of the MegaRAC PM and Renesas H8S/2462 provides OEMs with a formidable management subsystem on a chip that will accomplish many design wins for feature-rich server solutions, " said Justin Bagby, MegaRAC sales director at AMI. " AMI’s IPMI firmware implementation leverages years of close development collaboration with Renesas to provide highly reliable server health monitoring and management to OEMs utilizing the new Renesas H8S/2462 microcontrollers. " " Renesas’ H8S/2462 microcontrollers, combined with AMI’s MegaRAC PM 4.0, provide a very robust and reliable infrastructure for uninterrupted server operation. We are very pleased to work with AMI to offer a comprehensive and cost-effective BMC solution to the server market, " said Brian Davis, director, segment marketing, Renesas Technology America, Inc. " The collaboration and teamwork from AMI and Renesas in marketing IPMI solutions, which dates since 2004, continues to deliver OEMs with best-in-class features and easy implementation of advanced server manageability. " The IPMI 2.0 specification is a leading industry standard, defining hardware and firmware interfaces for server platform health monitoring, sending alerts and providing remote access to computer systems.

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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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