"SSTI is the first Intel licensee to implement a Firmware Hub
flash memory solution for the Intel 800 Series Hub Architecture chipsets. The production shipment of
SuperFlash Firmware Hub products has commenced this month. The company expects to ship over
400,000 units of SuperFlash Firmware Hub products in June."
Nice quote...good luck to all!
SST Gains AMI BIOS Support for SuperFlash Firmware Hub Products; Support
Strengthens SST's Position as Leading Firmware Hub Provider to Complement
Intel Chipsets
MONDAY, JUNE 12, 2000 3:52 AM
- BusinessWire
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jun 12, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.,
(Nasdaq:SSTI)) today announced that American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) has ported its PC BIOS
firmware, AMIBIOS Core 7.0, to SST's SuperFlash(R) Firmware Hub products for the Intel PC
architecture. This announcement gives computer system manufacturers the benefits of SST's
SuperFlash technology and compatible BIOS code for use in products based on Intel's 800 Series
Hub Architecture chipsets.
The support from AMI comes on the heels of SST's recently announced licensing deal with Intel for
Firmware Hub flash memory and SST's new family of application-specific flash memories for Intel
800 Series Hub Architecture chipsets. SST is the first Intel licensee to implement a Firmware Hub
flash memory solution for the Intel 800 Series Hub Architecture chipsets. The production shipment of
SuperFlash Firmware Hub products has commenced this month. The company expects to ship over
400,000 units of SuperFlash Firmware Hub products in June.
"We are extremely pleased to have the PC BIOS support from a leading company such as AMI for
our Firmware Hub products," said Derek Best, vice president of sales and marketing at SST. "Our
customers will benefit from this support, since it eliminates the step of porting BIOS code into our
Firmware Hub products. This in turn leads to faster time-to-market for our customers who are
designing computer systems based on Intel microprocessors."
"We recognize the superior inherent characteristics of SST's SuperFlash technology and its benefit
to customers of Intel Hub Architecture-based Internet computing systems," said Mark Huffman,
Director, Software Sales, American Megatrends Inc. "By porting our AMIBIOS Core 7.0 with SST's
SuperFlash Firmware Hub products, we will enable our customers to quickly adopt and implement
Intel's 800 Series Firmware Hub chipsets in new computer designs."
The SuperFlash Firmware Hub products (announced March 17 of this year) incorporate the
proprietary FWH interface protocol owned by Intel Corp. and are read-compatible to the Intel 82802
Firmware Hub product. The Intel 82802 Firmware Hub is one of the chips in the Intel 810, 810e, 820
and 840 Hub Architecture chipsets which optimizes the performance of computer systems based on
Intel's microprocessors.
SST's new family of Firmware Hub products is based on the core feature set of SST's MPF(TM)
(Multi-Purpose Flash) series. The MPF family was created using the SST SoftPartition uniform
sector architecture and the simple CMOS-compatible SuperFlash manufacturing process. Using the
SoftPartition architecture of the uniform 4 KByte sectors and uniform 64 KByte blocks, the
SST49LF00x products allow personal computer system designers to have better software
granularity, which improves the memory utilization. This allows designers to fit the system BIOS and
video BIOS firmware in a smaller density memory array than those of typical flash memory devices
without the SoftPartition capability. Therefore, the SoftPartition-based SST49LF00x Firmware Hub
products enable the Intel 800 Series Hub Architecture chipset to enhance the system performance
while reduce the overall system cost.
About SuperFlash Technology
SST's SuperFlash technology is a NOR type, split-gate cell architecture which uses a reliable
thick-oxide process with fewer manufacturing steps resulting in a low-cost, nonvolatile memory
solution with excellent data retention and higher reliability. The split-gate NOR SuperFlash
architecture facilitates a simple and flexible design suitable for high performance, high reliability,
small or medium sector size, in- or off-system programming and a variety of densities, all in a single
CMOS-compatible technology.
About Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, SST designs, manufactures and markets a diversified range
of nonvolatile memory solutions, based on proprietary, patented SuperFlash technology, for high
volume applications in the digital consumer, networking, wireless communications and Internet
computing markets. SST's product families include high-functionality flash memory components,
CompactFlash card mass storage products and 8-bit microcontrollers with on-chip flash memory.
SST also offers its SuperFlash technology for embedded applications through its world-class
manufacturing partners and technology licensees IBM, Motorola, National Semiconductor, Samsung
Electronics Co. Ltd., SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., Seiko Epson Corp., TSMC-Acer Semiconductor
Manufacturing Co. (TASMC) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC). Further
information on SST can be found on the company's website at ssti.com. |
