FIC heeft in een press release bekend gemaakt welke producten het bedrijf eind deze maand op de CeBIT ten toon zal stellen. De line-up bestaat onder meer uit een drietal DDR mobo's, twee nieuwe i815EP plankjes en een PDA met StrongARM SA1110 processor en 32MB RAM. Dit apparaatje wordt de eerste PDA die FIC in productie neemt.
De meeste belangstelling zal waarschijnlijk uitgaan naar de nieuwe DDR mobo's van FIC. Deze drie moederborden zijn de AD11, AN11 en FP11, gebaseerd op respectievelijk de AMD 761 northbridge en VIA 686B southbridge, VIA KT266 chipset en VIA Apollo Pro266 chipset. De FP11 kan optioneel voorzien worden van een onboard IDE RAID controller. FIC noemt geen details, maar waarschijnlijk betreft het hier de welbekende HPT370 van HighPoint:
FIC today outlined the line-up of products it will showcase at CeBIT 2001 in Hannover, Germany from March 22nd to 28th. The dazzling array of new products is drawn from across FIC's entire product range, ensuring visitors to the FIC booth will see products featuring the latest cutting edge technologies, CPUs and core-logic architectures. FIC will be located at C07, Hall 13.
New-age Motherboard Solutions
As has always been the case at CeBIT shows, FIC will be introducing a number of its latest motherboard solutions. Much interest has surrounded FIC's premium DDR solution, the 1stMainboard AD11, which in January became the world's first motherboard to be recommended by AMD for support of 266MHz Front Side Bus (FSB).
The combination of 266MHz FSB speed and the increased memory bandwidth of DDR memory technology ensure performance bottlenecks are significantly improved. The AD11 is based around a hybrid chipset consisting of the AMD 761 North Bridge and the VIA 686B South Bridge, and supports the Athlon processor at speeds of up to 1.2GHz.
Additional 1stMainboard DDR solutions on show at the FIC booth will include the AN11, based around the VIA KT266 chipset, and the VIA Pro266 chipset based FP11. Both motherboards are equipped with VIA's advanced V-Link technology, which increases the bandwidth of the bridge architecture from 133MHz to 266MHz and brings a leap forward in performance levels. Additional features of the AN11 include four USB ports, AGP 4X and onboard audio.
A special feature of the FP11 worth noting is support for RAID (levels 0, 1 and 0+1), which stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. In essence, it is a method of combining several hard drives into one unit. RAID provides users with fault tolerance and higher throughput levels than in comparison with a single hard drive or a group of independent hard drives.
FIC will also be showcasing a range of advanced Intel based solutions, including motherboards featuring the new 815EP chipset, namely the FS15 and FS39 motherboards. Both of these solutions offer solid performance with the Intel Pentium III (FCPGA) at speeds of 1GHz and beyond, and 133 MHz FSB.
Performance is enhanced thanks to Intel's enhanced ICH2 Controller Hub, which delivers twice the I/O bandwidth as traditional bridge architecture. Furthermore, the ATX sized FS15 and micro ATX sized FS39 are equipped with ATA 100, giving the fastest data/file transfer rates available, and offer four USB ports and onboard audio.
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