American Megatrends Inc. - American Megatrends Announces AMIBIOS®8 & Aptio®4.x Support for the Expanded Intel® Atom™ Processor 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 afresh broadcast Intel® Atom™ processor Z5xx alternation with Intel® System Controller Hub US15WP and USW15PT.

AMIBIOS8 & Aptio 4.x from AMI abutment the complete ambit of Intel® Atom™ processor Z5xx alternation (Z530, Z510, Z530P, Z520PT, Z510P and Z510PT), application the Intel Atom micro-architecture and Intel® 45nm high-k silicon technology for bigger ability consumption.

The expanded, even added able-bodied Intel Atom processor Z5xx alternation is targeted at temperature-sensitive applications in a advanced ambit of anatomy factors. Intel Atom processor Z5xx alternation can be begin in such assorted applications as alfresco kiosks and point-of-sale stations, in-vehicle infotainment systems acceptable for all altitude zones, and automated automation and ascendancy applications for use in ambitious thermal environments.

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 Atom processor series. The advance of the Intel Atom calendar enables even greater acceptance of firmware solutions, application both acceptable BIOS and UEFI implementations for the Intel Atom series. AMI charcoal committed to bazaar administration in the anchored accretion amplitude and to ensuring that our AMIBIOS and Aptio offerings amuse the a lot of accurate demands of this rapidly growing bazaar segment.”

“Intel now offers Atom with an automated temperature ambit from bare 40° to 85° C for anchored applications,” said Jonathan Luse, administrator of marketing, Low Power Embedded Products Division, Intel. “This allows anchored barter to use firmware solutions in new, low-power designs acclimated in a array of climates and airy thermal environments.”

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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.

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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