San Jose, Calif. (June 30, 1997) - SUPERMICRO Computer today announced four new PC 98-ready motherboards designed to increase system performance, reliability and ease of use. The four motherboards, SUPER P5MMA98, SUPER P5MMS98, SUPER P5MMA2 and SUPER P5MMS2 support Intel Pentium 233/200/180/166/150/133/120/100/90/75 MHz, MMXTM, Cyrix, IBM-M1, M2, and AMD K5 and K6 processors.

All four motherboards are based on Intel's advanced 430TX chipset to provide the best possible platform for multimedia applications. They support Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), Concurrent PCI, and 33 MB/s Ultra DMA for fast disk reads and writes. All motherboards support PC 98, the latest standard for ensuring high-quality hardware that supports the most advanced Windows 98 (Memphis) and Windows NT features.

"PC 98 is the industry's newest and most technically advanced hardware guideline. By being among the very first motherboard suppliers to meet this guideline, SUPERMICRO will continue to advance the quality of PC hardware platforms to maximize customer benefit, satisfaction, and ease of use," commented Charles Liang, President and CEO of SUPERMICRO. "This will result in increased user satisfaction."

SUPER P5MMA98, P5MMS98, P5MMA2 and P5MMS2 all support PC health monitoring features including CPU fan auto-off in sleep mode, CPU overheat alarm and LED, hardware BIOS virus protection, and a switching voltage regulator for the CPU core. The P5MMA98 and P5MMS98 support additional PC health monitoring features, including seven on-board voltage monitors, two or three-fan status monitors with firmware/software control on/off, CPU/chassis temperature monitors, Intel LANDesk® Client Manager, and system resource alert. A chassis intrusion detection prevents system tampering.

ACPI/PC 98 features include ACPI OnNow power management, with a slow blinking LED to indicate the system is in the sleep state, BIOS boot support for the USB (Universal Serial Bus) keyboard, and real time clock wake-up alarm. The motherboards provide a main switch override mechanism, and remote modem ring-on if the system is in a SoftOff state.

SUPER P5MMA98 and SUPER P5MMA2 are ATX size (12" x 8.3") and SUPER P5MMS98 and SUPER P5MMS2 are baby AT size (11" x 8.3"). All support up to 256 MB of FPM, EDO, or SDRAM using two 168-pin unbuffered 3.3 V DIMM sockets and four 72-pin 5 V SIMM sockets, with 512 KB pipelined burst SRAM or L2 cache. They include four PCI and four ISA slots with two EIDE, one floppy, ECP/EPP parallel port, PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, two 16550-based serial ports, two USBs, and a fast IR port. The P5MMS98 and P5MMS2 support 2 Mb/s back-up tape drives. For maximum flexibility, all four boards support AT or ATX-type power supplies. The included AMI WinBIOS has a 1 Mb flash memory for convenient field upgrade. The BIOS supports Advanced Power Management (APM), Plug and Play, and PC Health Management.

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SUPERMICRO is a high-end motherboard and server manufacturer. Since its founding in 1993, SUPERMICRO has led the industry in delivering leading edge technology such as the I2O architecture. SUPERMICRO strives to build long-term relationships with its customers by providing outstanding engineering innovation, quality, and reliability. SUPERMICRO’s Server and Workstation Building Block Solution provide proven building blocks, decreasing time to market and ensuring interoperability of all components.