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To: Buzz Lightyear who wrote (1488)	5/27/1998 7:56:00 PM
From: Jeff Jordan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2020

Wednesday May 27, 8:30 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SMART Modular Technologies Announces The Addition Of The SMARTengine/iPC-3 Embedded PC To The SMART/engine Product Line Socket 7 design uses Pentium 166/200/233 or AMD K6 processors; Targeted for communications, networking and industrial applications FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 1998-- SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:SMOD - news) introduced today its SMARTengine/iPC-3, a Single Board Computer (SBC) based on a 64-bit subsystem with a PCI bus that supports the Socket 7 Intel Pentium 166/200/233 MHz and the AMD K6 processors. The SMARTengine/iPC-3 provides cost-effective embedded processor performance with an easy migration path including a broad, stable suite of software development tools and applications. With the latest advancements in technology, the price-performance ratio of x86 embedded PC processors has seen significant improvement in just a few years. The SMARTengine/iPC-3 has taken advantage of that advancement to deliver performance that is comparable to embedded computers equipped with RISC processors at a lower cost. SMARTengine/iPC-3 applications include: data communications and telecommunications equipment, point-of-sale (POS) terminals, supervisory control and data acquisition systems, medical instrumentation and test and measurement gear. Nageen Sharma, SMART's Vice President, Embedded Computer Products Division, notes that, ''The SMARTengine/iPC-3 SBC is ideal for applications that require application software developed on PCs to be seamlessly ported to embedded computers for industrial environments. It is also ideal for customers who seek optimum performance at a lower system-level cost than RISC-based solutions and who seek to minimize motherboard obsolescence.'' Sharma continued, ''We are pleased to be able to continue providing our customers with a choice of products that optimize their time-to-market, cost and performance requirements.'' According to Warren Andrews, Editor for Market and Technology Quarterly, ''PCI, in its many variants, has become a universal socket for all varieties of embedded computers. It's mushrooming into a worldwide market for PCI-based, board-level, merchant market embedded computers that is expected to top $3.5 billion by 2001. Products such as SMART Modular Technologies' SMARTengine family of products will continue to push that number up as they not only win new embedded applications, but as they take over sockets that have been traditionally filled by desktop machines and older-style motherboards.'' For integration ease, shorter product development cycles and faster time-to-market, the SMARTengine/iPC-3 is designed to accommodate the Intel Pentium 166/200/233 MHz and AMD K6 processors. It also operates in conjunction with today's popular real-time operating systems (RTOS), Windows NT and CE software environments. This software compatibility allows for upward object code compatibility to eliminate the need to rewrite code as the processors migrate to newer technology. SMART will introduce the SMARTengine/iPC-3 at the PCI Developers Conference Expo, May 20-21 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA, SMART Booth no. 532, and at the Real Time Computer Shows in Boston, MA and Greenbelt, MD on May 19th and 21, respectively. SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. is a leading independent manufacturer of specialty and standard memory modules, Flash memory cards, high performance embedded computer modules, as well as communication card solutions. SMART offers more than 500 products to leading OEMs in the computer, networking and telecommunications industries. SMART has manufacturing facilities in California, Puerto Rico, and Scotland, a design center in India and sales organizations worldwide. More information on SMART can be obtained on the Internet at smartm.com. Contact: