ALi Corporation (also known as Acer Laboratories Incorporated or Acer Labs Inc., and commonly known as ALi) is a major designer and manufacturer of

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integrated circuits An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (also referred to as an IC, a chip, or a microchip) is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (or "chip") of semiconductor material, usually silicon. Large numbers of tiny ...

, and a former manufacturer of

personal computer A personal computer (PC) is a multi-purpose microcomputer whose size, capabilities, and price make it feasible for individual use. Personal computers are intended to be operated directly by an end user, rather than by a computer expert or tec ...

integrated circuits. It is based in Taiwan, and is a subsidiary of the Acer group. The company was founded in 1987, its president 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 Nvidia CorporationOfficially written as NVIDIA and stylized in its logo as VIDIA with the lowercase "n" the same height as the uppercase "VIDIA"; formerly stylized as VIDIA with a large italicized lowercase "n" on products from the mid 1990s to ...

in 2006 for $52 million.

Products

Chipsets

80X86 Chipsets

Pentium Pentium is a brand used for a series of x86 architecture-compatible microprocessors produced by Intel. The original Pentium processor from which the brand took its name was first released on March 22, 1993. After that, the Pentium II and Pe ...
and Socket 7 Chipsets

Slot 1 Slot 1 refers to the physical and electrical specification for the connector used by some of Intel's microprocessors, including the Pentium Pro, Celeron, Pentium II and the Pentium III. Both single and dual processor configurations were impleme ...
and
Socket 370 Socket 370 (also known as the PGA370 socket) is a CPU socket first used by Intel for Pentium III and Celeron processors to first complement and later replace the older Slot 1 CPU interface on personal computers. The "370" refers to the number of ...
Chipsets

Slot A Slot A is the physical and electrical specification for a 242-lead single-edge-connector used by early versions of AMD's Athlon processor. The Slot A connector allows for a higher bus rate than Socket 7 or Super Socket 7. Slot A motherboards use ...
and
Socket A Socket A (also known as Socket 462) is a zero insertion force Pin grid array, pin grid array (PGA) CPU socket used for Advanced Micro Devices, AMD Central processing unit, processors ranging from the Athlon Thunderbird#Athlon Thunderbird (T-Bird) ...
Chipsets

Socket 478 Socket 478, also known as mPGA478 or mPGA478B, is a 478-contact CPU socket used for Intel's Pentium 4 and Celeron series CPUs. Socket 478 was launched in August 2001 in advance of the Northwood core to compete with AMD's 462-pin Socket A and th ...
Chipsets

Socket 754 Socket 754 is a CPU socket originally developed by AMD to supersede its Athlon XP platform (Socket 462, also referred to as Socket A). Socket 754 was the first socket developed by AMD to support their new consumer version of the 64 bit microproc ...
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Chipsets

Southbridge Chips

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Lifebook P series laptop

VGA

* M3141 * M3143 * M3145A AliCat - PCI SVGA card, 2 MB

DRAM Dynamic random-access memory (dynamic RAM or DRAM) is a type of random-access semiconductor memory that stores each bit of data in a memory cell, usually consisting of a tiny capacitor and a transistor, both typically based on metal-oxid ...

, external

RAMDAC A random-access memory digital-to-analog converter (RAMDAC) is a combination of three fast digital-to-analog converters (DACs) with a small static random-access memory (SRAM) used in computer graphics display controllers or video cards to store th ...

, no DDC support - most likely S3 Trio64V+ compatible * M3147V AliCat - PCI SVGA card, 2 MB ( S3 Trio 64V+ compatible ?) * M3149 GUI Accelerator, 4MB * M3151 GUI Accelerator, 8 MB

Video

* M3307 MPEG-I Video Controller * M3309 MPEG-II Video w/ Software Audio Decoder * M3321 MPEG-II Audio/Video Decoder * M3325 Video/Audio Decoder * M3327 CPU * M3328 CPU M3328F A1

* M3329 CPU (

MIPS architecture MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures (ISA)Price, Charles (September 1995). ''MIPS IV Instruction Set'' (Revision 3.2), MIPS Technologies, ...

) ** A1 (216 pin) ** B1 (216 pin) ** C E1 (128 pin) *** PF (parallel) *** SF (serial) * M3330 CPU

PC peripheral

* M5105, M5107, M5109, M5113, M5119 SuperIO chip * M5123, M5125, M5132, M5135, M5140, M5145 SuperIO chip with KBC integrated * M5253, M5271, M5273, M5622, M5633

USB Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard that establishes specifications for cables, connectors and protocols for connection, communication and power supply (interfacing) between computers, peripherals and other computers. A broad ...

FireWire IEEE 1394 is an interface standard for a serial bus for high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer. It was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by Apple in cooperation with a number of companies, primarily Sony an ...

PCI chipsets * M5281, M5283, M5619, M5621, M5636, M5637, M5642 PCI IDE * M5455 PCI

AC'97 AC'97 (''Audio Codec '97;'' also MC'97 for ''Modem Codec '97'') is an Sound reproduction, audio codec standard developed by Intel Architecture Labs in 1997. The standard was used in motherboards, modems, and sound cards. The specification covers ...

Sound * M5623 (USB 2.0), M5617 (USB 1.1) USB Scanner controller * M5632 USB Host-to-host * M5634, M5651 USB Flash Disk controller, probably clone of Phison chips * M5635 USB Cardreader * M5661, M5667, M7101, M7107, M7108 digital audio player controller * M5818 RTC chip, clone of Motorola MC146818

For embedded systems

M6117 is a highly integrated, low voltage, single-chip implementation of the

Intel 386 The Intel 386, originally released as 80386 and later renamed i386, is a 32-bit microprocessor introduced in 1985. The first versions had 275,000 transistors Comparison of AMD chipsets This is an overview of chipsets sold under the AMD brand, manufactured before May 2004 by the company itself, before the adoption of open platform approach as well as chipsets manufactured by ATI Technologies after October 2006 as the completion ...

Comparison of ATI chipsets This is a comparison of chipsets, manufactured by ATI Technologies. For AMD processors Comparison of Northbridges Comparison of Southbridges For Intel processors Comparison of Northbridges Comparison of Southbridges See also * List o ...

List of Intel chipsets This article provides a list of motherboard chipsets made by Intel, divided into three main categories: those that use the PCI bus for interconnection (the 4xx series), those that connect using specialized "hub links" (the 8xx series), and those ...

Comparison of Nvidia chipsets This is a comparison of chipsets designed by Nvidia. nForce nForce nForce Southbridges nForce2 nForce2 nForce2 Southbridges nForce3 The memory controller is integrated into the CPU, the supported memory types depend on the CP ...

List of VIA chipsets This is a list of computer motherboard chipsets made by VIA Technologies. Northbridge chips are listed first, primarily by CPU-socket or CPU-family; southbridge chips are listed in a later table. Background VIA chipsets support CPUs from Intel, ...

References

External links

Official site

Technical info
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