ULi’s M1689 – Industry’s Finest Single Chip for Socket 939 Series AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor - Reaches Mass Production!

Taipei, Taiwan -- 6/1/2004 -- ULi Electronics Inc. today announces that M1689 – one of the industry’s finest single chip solutions supporting the socket 939 series AMD Athlon™ 64 microprocessor and providing support for the industry’s latest HyperTransport™ technology bus speed reaching 2.0 GT/Sec reaches mass production.

The combination of ULi’s M1689 with the AMD Athlon 64 processor employed on Asus motherboards, and several other first tier ODM manufacturers offers a leading edge high-performance, high integration and cost effective computing solution for performance driven enterprise, gamers and PC enthusiasts.

M1689 is one of the first AMD Athlon 64 platform’s truly high energy efficient, highly integrated single chip solutions. Using AMD’s HyperTransport technology bus interface, M1689 FSB can effortlessly reach up to 2GT/Sec. Major features found in M1689 include integrated AGP8X controller, 8 ports of USB2.0/1.1 host controller, 2 Serial ATA Host contollers, and RAID 0,1. No doubt the M1689 stands out amongst the conventional north plus south bridge solutions. Primarily M1689 overtakes the two chip requirement into one chip while filled with essential features. The one chip solution relieves the mobile and Desktop Embedded OEM/ODM manufacturers of their most critical concern: board real estate.

“This new single-chip solution complements our AMD64 architecture-based family of products,” said John Morris, manager, desktop marketing, AMD’s Computation Products Group. “AMD is committed to providing incredible 32-bit performance for music, video and games, as well as support for 64-bit software as it becomes more readily available.”

“The creation of M1689 has been a heart warming experience for a leader to witness. The single chip M1689 involved highly complicated design and manufacturing measures. Nonetheless ULi team members overcame all interferences, working endlessly to quickly move M1689 into production this May,” says Alex Kuo, President, CEO of ULi. “ASUS’s and AMD’s recognition of M1689 have established ULi as an upper scale IC design house. The AMD Athlon 64 processor is the one of the world’s most advanced microprocessor. When coupled with ULi’s M1689, it can offer customers incredible performance in a cost effective solution.”

About ULi
ULi Electronics Inc. was introduced to the market on July 2003, already shown profitable amongst all competitors. ULi is rewarded with the inheritance ALi Corporation's strong core logic history. Thus, ULi's primary focus henceforward is to provide finest design cutting-edge IC core logic chipsets for PC and peripheral market space and provide premium support to OEM/ODM system manufacturers globally. Information about ULi is available on the web: http://www.uli.com.tw