ATLANTA, GEORGIA - American Megatrends (AMI) is pleased to announce that its AMIBIOS®8 & Aptio®4.x products feature support for the recently expanded Intel® Core™ i3, i5 and i7 processor series.

In conjunction with announcements from Intel of additions and updates to their popular Intel® Core™ processor family, AMIBIOS8 & Aptio 4.x from AMI now support the complete range of each of these processor series.

Intel® Core™ i3, i5 and i7 processors feature the latest, smartest and fastest processors from Intel, delivering outstanding intelligent performance for multitasking, editing digital video, gaming and more. The culmination of 40 years of technology leadership, Intel Core processors are the foundation for reliable, responsive, energy-efficient PCs that will continue to satisfy and perform in the years ahead.

S. Shankar, President and CEO of American Megatrends, offered this comment: “As a long-standing member of the Intel® Embedded Alliance, we are proud to announce our continued support for the expanded Intel Core processor series. The growth of the Intel Core lineup enables even greater adoption of AMI firmware solutions, using both traditional BIOS and UEFI implementations for the Intel Core processor series. AMI remains committed to market leadership in firmware solutions for the consumer computing space and to ensuring that our AMIBIOS and Aptio offerings satisfy the most rigorous demands of this rapidly evolving market segment.”

AMIBIOS8 is built around Visual eBIOS (VeB), the innovative development environment designed specifically for BIOS porting. VeB was released with the original AMIBIOS8 in 2001 and continues to simplify BIOS development worldwide by removing barriers normally associated with BIOS development in the command line environment. Aptio builds on that experience, providing next- generation BIOS firmware based on Unified EFI (UEFI) and the Intel® Platform Innovation Framework for EFI.

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

About AMI:
Founded in 1985 and known worldwide for AMIBIOS®, American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) supplies state-of-the-art hardware, software, and utilities to today's high-tech manufacturers. AMI’s innovative Aptio™ solution for UEFI, modular AMIBIOS8, high quality StorTrends® IP Storage Area Networks (IP-SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), and Storage Management software solutions, along with MegaRAC® remote server management, KVM over IP, IPMI 2.0 firmware and high-density motherboards continue to garner industry acclaim and awards around the world. In line with the diversity of its technology and product line, AMI is a member of a number of industry associations and standards groups, such as the Unified EFI Forum (UEFI), the Intel® Embedded Alliance and the Trusted Computing Group (TCG). Headquartered in Atlanta, AMI has locations in the U.S., China, Germany, India, Japan, Korea and Taiwan to better serve its customers.

For more information on AMI and its products and services, call 1-800-U-BUY-AMI, or visit www.ami.com.

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