SST Announces SPI Serial Flash Memory Support for Intel's Q965 PRO Chipsets

SST Continues to Demonstrate Its Leadership Position in Supplying BIOS and Firmware Memory Storage Solutions to the Desktop PC Market

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc., Nasdaq: SSTI), a leader in flash memory technology, today announced its 25 series serial flash memory devices support Intel(R) Corporation's new Intel Q965 PRO chipset featuring its next-generation Intel(R) Active Management Technology (Intel(R) AMT). With densities ranging from 4 to 16 Mbits, SST's SST25VFxxxB nonvolatile serial flash devices are a key enabling technology for designers of Intel Q965 PRO LAN chipset-based systems with a solution that supports AMT's advanced capabilities and increased functionality in PC desktop applications.

The SST25VFxxxB serial flash devices offer enhanced manageability features for ICH8-based platforms providing code and data storage for system BIOS, integrated GbE, Intel(R) Quiet System Technology (Intel(R) QST), Alert Standard Format (ASF) and Intel AMT. The SST25VFxxxB devices feature uniform 4-Kbyte erasable sectors, providing users the capabilities to optimize their firmware architecture for data and code storage without sacrificing memory space.

Based on SST's proprietary SuperFlash technology, the SST25VFxxxB features a 50 MHz max clock frequency, a broad voltage range (2.7V-3.6V), 64 Kbyte block-erase, fast AAI-Word programming and software register status block protection. The serial flash devices also share the same 8-pin footprint for ease of density migration for added system functionality.

"For more than six years, SST has worked closely with Intel to deliver best-in-class BIOS flash solutions for Intel-based computing systems," said Douglas Lee, vice president of SST's Application Specific Memory Product Group. "The Intel Q965 Pro chipset drives significant advancements in the desktop market and we are pleased to be able to closely align ourselves with this chipset family. With SST's leadership position in PC BIOS flash and our familiarity with the desktop computing market, we are poised to support our mutual customers' transition from firmware hub to SPI serial flash."

Pricing and Availability

The 4 Mbit SST25VF040B, 8-Mbit SST25VF080B and the 16-Mbit SST25VF160B are available now in volume production quantities. All three devices are available in an SOIC-8 (200mm) and WSON-8 package. Pricing for the SST25VF040B starts at $0.75, pricing for the SST25VF080B starts at $0.95, and pricing for the SST25VF160B starts at $1.25, each in 10K unit quantities.

About Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, SST designs, manufactures and markets a diversified range of memory and non-memory products for high volume applications in the digital consumer, networking, wireless communications and Internet computing markets. Leveraging its proprietary, patented SuperFlash technology, SST is a leading provider of nonvolatile memory solutions with product families that include various densities of high functionality flash memory components and flash mass storage products. The Company also offers its SuperFlash technology for embedded applications through its broad network of world-class manufacturing partners and technology licensees, including TSMC, which offers it under its trademark Emb-FLASH. SST's non-memory products include NAND controller-based products, smart card ICs, flash microcontroller and radio frequency ICs and modules. Further information on SST can be found on the company's Web site at http://www.sst.com/