Taipei, May 25, 2004 – Silicon Integrated Systems Corp (SiS), a leading supplier of core logic chipsets, announced today that the SiS965/SiS965L South Bridge chip has completed full PCI Express interoperability for PCI Express Gigabit networking. In test conducted by SiS, the SiS965/SiS965L passed full network compatibility testing for use with PCI Express Bus Interface Gigabit Ethernet controllers.

"Broadcom is pleased that SiS has selected our BCM5751 PCI Express LAN controller in their SiS965 reference platforms. The availability of the SiS965 provides the market with a solid PCI Express solution that enables widespread adoption of PCI Express. With the continued acceptance of Gigabit Ethernet, the need for performance oriented I/O will continue to grow, and Broadcom's family of NetXtremeTM Gigabit Ethernet controllers are the industry's first and only Gigabit Ethernet controllers designed specifically to address the needs of today's high-performance computing platforms," said Seán Conlon, Asia Director for Broadcom's Enterprise Computing Group. "Broadcom's PCI Express family provides the best solution in SiS965 based platform design."

Created with groundbreaking technology, PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet is able to achieve transmission speeds of up to 1000MB/s, thus greatly enhancing and improving Internet audio/video applications. PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controllers' high compatibility makes network and system upgrades easy and worry-free.

PCI Express' high speed I/O Bus interface provides data transmission speeds of up to 250 MB/s, almost twice the speed of traditional PCI (133 MB/s). These higher transfer rates help raise the efficiency of interface peripheral devices such as network cards and video capture cards and provide a more powerful operating environment.

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