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`01.Jan.2004` ac-logic (ANF)	Mai Logic: News regarding PPC 970 support Mai Logic, Inc. Licenses IBM®'s Elastic Interface Technology For Its Articia Chipset Family and Teron Series Systems in Support of IBM®'s PowerPC™ 970 Microprocessor Family FREMONT, CA. December 21, 2003. Mai Logic, Incorporated, a leading global semiconductor provider of bus-interface controller circuits, embedded platforms and total system solutions, announced today it is licensing IBM®'s ultra-high speed PowerPC™ 970 Elastic Interface technology. Mai Logic plans to incorporate IBM®'s Elastic Interface technology within its Articia I chipset and Teron I series system product offerings, working hand-in-hand with the PowerPC™ 970 microprocessors to help improve the performance of next generation embedded applications in consumer electronics, multimedia, storage, main-stream computing, servers and networking application for consumer, industrial and military implementations. "IBM®'s latest licensing agreement with Mai Logic demonstrates the continuing momentum of the PowerPC™ 970 family in the market," said Mark Ireland, Manager of PowerPC™ Strategy and Business Development, IBM® Microelectronics. "Our relationship enables IBM® to provide Mai Logic with the latest, most innovative microprocessor core technology for their products while in turn, driving momentum for the PowerPC™ architecture in the embedded space." "IBM®'s PowerPC™ 970 architecture provides us with tremendous flexibility," said Jason Hou, CEO of Mai Logic. "We plan to utilize the Elastic Interface technology with Articia I to expand our leading-edge Articia family roadmap for a variety of compelling products which span several of our target markets that require optimal performance, low-power consumption, low-cost 64-bit capabilities. The technology will be a significant asset in our portfolio as we move forward." Mai Logic's Articia I System Controller and Teron I Series Systems Mai Logic's feature-rich Articia I supports IBM® PowerPC™ 970 microprocessor, DDR 2 memory interface and other advanced peripheral interfaces such as PCI Express and PCI-X. The combination of IBM® PowerPC™ 970's performance speeds, the ultra high speed Elastic I/O technology and Mai Logic's AGP 8X compatible Articia I chipset represents a formidable solution in the embedded markets, particularly those requiring high resolution graphics such as multimedia, gaming, medical and aerospace industries. With built-in MPEG4 accelerator and TV decoder designed for developing integrated graphic and video subsystems, Articia I is well positioned to bridge the gap between the computer and the television as the worlds of entertainment and computing converge. Articia I is also equipped with self-repairing and self-testing functions to ensure performance stability. The PowerPC™ 970 + Articia I based Teron I series solutions provide system developers scalability and synthesizability to meet the ever-increasing performance demands of future-generation devices, accelerate time-to-market, and minimize overall complexity. Samples of the Articia I chipsets, Teron I series systems, and PowerPC™ 970 processor are expected to be available in early second quarter of 2004. IBM®'s PowerPC 970 Microprocessor The PowerPC™ 970 is a high-performance 64-bit microprocessor for use in a variety of applications, including desktops, workstations, servers and communications products. The chip is derived from IBM®'s award-winning POWER4™ server processor to provide high performance and additional function for users. It is designed for manipulating data in larger, 64-bit chunks and accelerating compute-intensive workloads, like multimedia and graphics, through specialized circuitry known as a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) unit. About Mai Logic, Incorporated Mai Logic, Inc. is a leading global semiconductor provider of bus-interface controller circuits, embedded platforms and total system solutions. With more than 60 US and International invention patents granted and 100 more pending in the fields of IC, security, and systems design engineering, Mai Logic, through demonstrated cost-effective advanced technology offerings, has established itself as a proven technology powerhouse. Mai Logic's innovations include: Intelligent Memory (iMemory), which enables industry's first in-field DRAM fault detection and real-time fault recovery without the need of a system reboot; Control Pipeline allowing flexible timing on various system clocks and low power consumption; Genetic Computing for high-level security and privacy; and Floating Buffer to achieve a true concurrent system. Mai Logic, incorporated in California, is part of the Atum Group in Taipei. The Group has design and development operations in Fremont Ca and Taipei and Beijing , with Marketing and Sales support world wide. Mai Logic is a total solution IC system design house devoted to customer satisfaction. (snx) [News message: 01. Jan. 2004, 21:48] [Comments: 1 - 03. Jan. 2004, 17:43] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jan.2004` David ´Daff´ Brunet (E-Mail)	Amiga Games Hit Parade: Results 2003 The results for 2003's game polling have been released on Amiga Games Hit Parade. Read the following text for the first three places and check out the AGHP website under the title link for the complete results. What game genre do you prefer? Adventure - 3.87 Strategy - 3.83 First Person Shooter - 3.79 What game would you like ported from another platform to play on AmigaOS/MorphOS? Unreal (series) Quake 3 WarCraft (series) What Amiga game classic would you like to play in a "remastered" version on Pegasos or Amiga One? Turrican (1-2-3) Alien Breed 3D 2 Speedball (1-2) (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 01. Jan. 2004, 17:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jan.2004` Elbox (E-Mail)	New Year's greetings from Elbox Elbox Computer wishes all Amiga users a Very Happy New Year. For a New Year Gift, Elbox re-offers the Free Shipping opportunity for most of the items from the Elbox Online Store. From 31 December 2003 to 21 January 2004 all items in our Online Store marked FREE SHIPPING will be delivered without any shipping costs. This offer is valid for orders from all countries of the world. The offer applies to most of the products in the online offer, including Mediator PCI busboards, FastATA/PowerFlyer controllers, eFlash memories, Spider USB 2.0 cards, mouse and keyboard interfaces, and many other accessories. For details, see the Special Offer page. Order your desired product Now and get FREE Shipping! May your dreams be fulfilled in this coming New Year, Elbox Computer Team (snx) [News message: 01. Jan. 2004, 15:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jan.2004` Brad Webb (E-Mail)	Amiga Update Newsletter from Brad Webb #031231 Under the title link you'll find the complete newsletter from Amiga Update for December, 2003. In this monthly newsletter Brad Webb gathers together all the important news about the Amiga scene. Themes of this issue: Developer 4.0 to be distributed Amiga setting up new user group org Aladdin 4D available on CD Spontaneous combustion fired up fxSCAN upgrades for download ImageFX 4.5 Studio now available Poseidon 2.2 ready for download SimpleMail has been updated E-Teacher, for learning languages Gorky 17 licensed for Amiga OS 4 Latest WinUAE is 9.8.23 A/NES Development ended, but ... (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 01. Jan. 2004, 15:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jan.2004` Computerwoche (ANF)	Computerwoche: BIOS Successor EFI Advances Within three months the longtime partners Microsoft and Intel wish to establish a forum to spread a new PC specification named EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface). EFI attempts to replace BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) that has been used for 23 years. BIOS initializes a computer's hardware before the loading of the operating system. Read the complete, German language article at Computerwoche under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 01. Jan. 2004, 15:02] [Comments: 1 - 03. Jan. 2004, 17:46] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jan.2004` MorphOS-News.de (Website)	AmigaMARK: Pegasos II Module Available There's now a Pegasos II module for Rupert Hausberger's benchmark programm AmigaMARK. Start up AmigaMARK and select your modules and database in order to load the module here under the user name "Nowee". (snx) (Translation: dm) [News message: 01. Jan. 2004, 11:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jan.2004` Amiga.org (Website)	Anachronism Industries: Previously Announced Firm Will Not Serve Amiga Market Anachronism Industries, a planned firm of amiga.org moderator Jim Farley, better known as redrumloa, will not serve the Amiga market because of circumstances beyond their control, according to this surprising announcement from today. In place of the company they've started a mass-sale of their remaining items on eBay. (snx) (Translation: dm) [News message: 01. Jan. 2004, 11:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jan.2004` Pär Boberg (ANF)	Famous Amiga Uses updated Pär Boberg has updated Famous Amiga Uses, a listing of diverse companies and institutions which use or have used the Amiga. The list is available as AmigaGuide or HTML file. (snx) [News message: 01. Jan. 2004, 09:52] [Comments: 3 - 03. Jan. 2004, 17:39] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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