SiS671FX/SiS968 Chipsets Passed PCI-SIG Compliance Tests

SiS671FX/SiS968 Chipsets Passed PCI-SIG Compliance Tests

Taipei, Nov. 7th, 2006—SiS today announced that the latest SiS671FX and SiS968 chipsets both have passed PCI Express 1.1 compliance test conducted by PCI-SIG®.

PCI-SIG®, an industry organization chartered with the development and management of the PCI bus specification, hosted a yearly PCI Express compliance test at The Westin Hotel in Taipei at the end of this October. The SiS671FX and the SiS968 chipsets both presented the highest stability of supporting PCI Express 1.1 specification, and passed the compliance tests successfully. SiS dedicates itself to the innovation and development of core logic chipsets for years. Through the acceptance of such a credible industry organization, PCI-SIG®, SiS assures customers of the exceeding performance of the SiS671FX and the SiS968.

The SiS671FX is an integrated chipset specially designed for the next-generation operating system, Windows Vista™. It supports Intel Core™ 2 Duo processors, FSB up to 1066MHz CPUs, and DDR2-667 memory. Embedded with SiS Mirage™3 graphics engine, the SiS671FX is able to hardware support DirectX9.0. Also, the SiS671FX combines SiS Real Video technology to deliver vivid image quality. By supporting PCI Express x16 interface, the SiS671FX provides up to 4GB/s of bandwidth for each direction, which fulfills the need of gamers by speeding up the whole system.

Pairing with the SiS671FX Northbridge chipset, the SiS968 Southbridge chipset has several unique features. It has been designed to focus on reducing the power-consumption. Therefore, it is able to actively adjust the power consumption of peripheral. With such an advanced technology, the SiS968 Southbridge chipset can save up to 50% of power for the system. Besides, the SiS968 Southbridge chipset is integrated with SiS proprietary MuTIOL® 1G technology to connect with the SiS671FX Northbridge chipset speedily. It supports 2 PCI Express interfaces, and 2 SATA 3G ports which allows up to 300MB/s of data transmission. Also, the SiS968 Southbridge supports 8 USB2.0 ports, which perfectly meets the requirement of connecting more and more devices. Moreover, it supports the most advanced 8-channel High-Definition Audio surround sound to provide better sound effects, and supports Gigabit Ethernet to have faster internet access.

About Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (SiS)

Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (SiS) is a worldwide leader in the development of leading-edge logic products, including core logic, multimedia, communication and embedded system. In Feb. 2006, SiS announced the expansion of its product lines to DRAM Module. With this new product, SiS can not only diversify its product lines but also satisfy various customers’ requirements to be stronger competitor in the market.

The company was founded in 1987 in the Hsin-chu Science Park in Taiwan and has been listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE2363) since August 1997. So far, SiS has over 700 employees. Linking the worldwide market through branch offices located in Santa Clara, Beijing, Suzhou, Hong Kong, and Taipei. For more information, please visit us at www.sis.com.

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