American Megatrends Inc. - American Megatrends Announces AMIBIOS®8 & Aptio®4.x Support for the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series

American Megatrends Corporate LogoStore this angel in big sizeATLANTA, GEORGIA - American Megatrends (AMI) is admiring to advertise that its AMIBIOS®8 & Aptio®4.x articles affection abutment for the new Intel® Xeon® 5500 Platform.

The Intel® Xeon® 5500 belvedere combines the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series with the Intel® 5520 Chipset for embedded, storage, aegis and communications basement applications in a advanced ambit of anatomy factors. There are four altered processor options for this belvedere with seven year lifecycle abutment from Intel.

The belvedere is optimized for able achievement and appearance 6 SATA II ports with accessible software RAID 5. For centralized memory, it appearance up to 3 channels of built-in DDR3 SR/DR/Quad Rank, DDR3 800/1066 RDIMM or UDIMM and up to 3 dual-rank or 1 quad-rank RDIMMs/channel.

S. Shankar, President and CEO of American Megatrends, offered this comment: “As a abiding affiliate of the Intel® Embedded and Communications Alliance, we are appreciative to advertise our connected abutment for the broadcast Intel® Xeon® platforms. The advance of the Intel Xeon processor 5500 alternation calendar enables even greater acceptance of firmware solutions, application both acceptable BIOS and UEFI implementations. AMI charcoal committed to ensuring that our AMIBIOS and Aptio offerings amuse the a lot of accurate demands of the marketplace.”

AMIBIOS8 is complete about Visual eBIOS (VeB), the avant-garde development ambiance advised accurately for BIOS porting. VeB was appear with the aboriginal AMIBIOS8 in 2001 and continues to abridge BIOS development common by removing barriers commonly associated with BIOS development in the command band environment. Aptio builds on that experience, accouterment next- bearing BIOS firmware based on Unified EFI (UEFI) and the Intel® Platform Innovation Framework for EFI.

AMIBIOS8 & Aptio 4.x appraisal BIOS for Intel Customer Reference Boards are accessible now. Interested parties are encouraged to acquaintance AMI’s Software Sales Department for details.

(Intel® and Intel® Xeon™ are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and added countries.)

About AMI: Founded in 1985 and accepted common for AMIBIOS®, American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) food advanced hardware, software, and utilities to today's high-tech manufacturers. AMI’s avant-garde Aptio™ band-aid for UEFI, modular AMIBIOS8, top above StorTrends® IP Storage Area Networks (IP-SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), and Storage Management software solutions, alternating with MegaRAC® limited server management, KVM over IP, IPMI 2.0 firmware and high-density motherboards abide to accumulate industry acclaim and awards about the world. In band with the assortment of its technology and artefact line, AMI is a affiliate of a amount of industry associations and standards groups, such as the Intel® Embedded and Communications Alliance, a association of communications and anchored developers and band-aid providers. Headquartered in Atlanta, AMI has locations in the U.S., China, Germany, India, Japan, Korea and Taiwan to bigger serve its customers.

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