ALi Corporation
ALi Corporation 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.
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 in 2006 for $52 million.
Products
Chipsets
80X86 Chipsets
Chipset | Part Numbers | South Bridge | Release Date | Processors | Bus Type | Max. FSB | Memory Types | Max. Memory Bus | Max. Memory | Max. Cache | PCI |
M1209 | 386SX | ISA | FPM | - | |||||||
M1217 | 386SX | ISA | FPM | - | |||||||
M1419 | M1421 | 386DX Socket 1 Socket 2 | ISA | FPM | - | ||||||
M1429 | M1431 | 386DX Socket 2 Socket 3 | VESA | - | |||||||
M1439 | M1445 | Socket 3 | PCI | 2.0 | |||||||
FINALi 486 | M1489 | M1487 | Socket 3 | PCI | 50 MHz | EDO | 50 MHz | 128MB | 1MB | 2.0 |
[Pentium] Chipsets
Chipset | Part Numbers | South Bridge | Release Date | Processors | Max. FSB | Memory Types | Max. Memory Bus | Max. memory | Max. cache | Max. cacheable RAM | Parity/ ECC | PCI | AGP |
ALADDiN | M1451 | M1449 | Socket 4 | 66 MHz | FPM | 66 MHz | 1 GB | 1MB | 512MB | 2.1 | |||
ALADDiN III | M1521 | M1523 | Socket 7 | 66 MHz | FPM EDO BEDO SDRAM | 66 MHz | 1 GB | 1MB | 512MB | 2.1 | |||
ALADDiN IV | M1531 | M1533 | Socket 7 | 83 MHz | FPM EDO SDRAM | 100 MHz | 1 GB | 1MB | 512MB | 2.1 | |||
ALADDiN IV+ | M1531B | M1533/M1543 | Socket 7 | 83 MHz | FPM EDO SDRAM | 100 MHz | 1 GB | 1MB | 512MB | 2.1 | |||
ALADDiN V for ATX, NLX, LPX form factor | M1541 | M1543/M1543C | Super Socket 7 | 100 MHz | FPM EDO SDRAM | 100 MHz | 4 GB | 1MB | 1GB | 2.1 | 2x | ||
ALADDiN V for Baby AT form factor | M1542 | M1543/M1543C | Super Socket 7 | 100 MHz | FPM EDO SDRAM | 100 MHz | 4 GB | 1MB | 1GB | 2.1 | 2x | ||
ALADDiN 7 | M1561 | M1535D | Super Socket 7 | 100 MHz | SDRAM | 100 MHz | 1 GB | 1MB | 1GB | 2.1 |
[Slot 1] and [Socket 370] Chipsets
[Slot A] and [Socket A] Chipsets
It was not implemented.[Socket 478] Chipsets
[Socket 754]/939">Socket 939">939/940">Socket 940">940 Chipsets
Southbridge Chips
Used with ATI Radeon Xpress 200 chipsetsUsed with ATI Radeon Xpress 200 chipsets
Table shows the I/O capabilities of these single-chip chipsets, which do not have a physical "southbridge".
VGA
- M3141
- M3143
- M3145A AliCat - PCI SVGA card, 2 MB DRAM, external RAMDAC, no DDC support - most likely S3 Trio64V+ compatible
- M3147V AliCat - PCI SVGA card, 2 MB
- 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
- M3329 CPU
- * A1
- * B1
- * C E1
- ** PF
- ** SF
- 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/FireWire PCI chipsets
- M5281, M5283, M5619, M5621, M5636, M5637, M5642 PCI IDE
- M5455 PCI AC'97 Sound
- M5623, M5617 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
M6032 is an 8051-based Microcontroller with Dual Data Pointers, UART, 32 I/O lines, 3 Timers/Counters, 6 Interrupts/2 priority levels, 256 Bytes IDATA RAM, 256 Bytes on-chip XRAM.
M6759 is an 8051-based Microcontroller with Dual Data Pointers, UART, 32 I/O lines, 3 Timers/Counters, 6 Interrupts/2 priority levels, 64 KB Flash ROM, 256 Bytes IDATA RAM, 256 Bytes on-chip XRAM.