ALi Corporation (also known as Acer Laboratories Incorporated or Acer Labs Inc. , and commonly known as ALi ) is a major designer and manufacturer of embedded systems integrated circuits , and a former manufacturer of personal computer integrated circuits. It is based in Taiwan, and is a subsidiary of the Acer group.
3-574: The M6100 PICA is a system logic chipset designed by Acer Laboratories introduced in 1993. PICA stands for Performance-enhanced Input-output and CPU Architecture . It was based on the Jazz architecture developed by Microsoft and supported the MIPS Technologies R4000 or R4400 microprocessors. The chipset was designed for computers that run Windows NT , and therefore used ARC firmware to boot Windows NT. The chipset consisted of six chips:
6-472: A CPU and secondary cache controller, a buffer, a I/O cache and bus controller, a memory controller , and two data buffers. PICA was used by Acer in its Formula 4000 personal workstation, which NEC sold under the OEM name RISCstation Image . This computer hardware article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Acer Laboratories Incorporated The company was founded in 1987, its president
9-548: Is Teddy Lu. Part of ALi including the personal computer integrated circuits business was spun off as ULi Electronics Inc. in June 2003. ULi was acquired by Nvidia in 2006 for $ 52 million. Socket 5 M6117 is a highly integrated, low voltage, single-chip implementation of the Intel 386SX compatible microprocessor subsystem plus ALi M1217 chipset. The M6117 provides a static 386SX core derived from V.M. Technology VM386SX+ microprocessor,
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