Taipei, Oct. 24^th, 2006—SiS today made the announcement of its SiS662 integrated chipset being adopted by the Foxconn 6627MA-8EKRS2H motherboard. Since the release of the SiS662 chipset, it has been extremely popular in the field and constantly receiving overwhelming responses.

The Foxconn 6627MA-8EKRS2H motherboard supports the latest Windows Vista Operating System and is expected to take an important place in the mainstream market. By integrating with the SiS662 North Bridge chipset, the Foxconn 6627MA-8EKRS2H motherboard supports a wide range of Intel platforms, including Intel Core^TM 2 Duo (E4300), Intel Pentium® D, Pentium® 4, Celeron D processors, and even Intel FSB 800 MHz CPUs. It also supports DDR2-667 memory up to 2GB. With Mirage^TM 1 graphics engine of the SiS662 North bridge chipset, the Foxconn 6627MA-8EKRS2H is able to deliver outstanding graphics performance. In addition, the SiS662 supports one PCI Express x16 graphics expansion slot to have no delay when playing 3D games with add-on graphics card.

The SiS966L South Bridge combining with the SiS662 North Bridge provides even more surprising support for the Foxconn 6627MA-8EKRS2H motherboard. With the SiS966L, the Foxconn 6627MA-8EKRS2H motherboard supports up to 8 USB 2.0 ports. It is equipped with not only two Serial ATA connectors to provide a high-speed transfer rate of 150MB/s, but also IEEE 1394a to meet the throughout requirements of multiple streaming input/output. To keep up with the trends in multimedia applications, it delivers excellent quality of surround sound environment by supporting high definition 8-channel audio. Meanwhile, it fulfills users’ requirement of extremely high-speed internet access by supporting Gigabit Ethernet, and it provides a more stable and reliable operating system by supporting RAID0, 1 and JBOD.

“SiS is so proud to have the opportunity to co-work with Foxconn, a world-class company, in developing new products. In such a competitive market, we foresee that the newly-released 6627MA-8EKRS2H motherboard will gain huge market share for both of us with no doubt. And such a great accomplishment is just a beginning!” said Daniel Chen, CEO and President of SiS.

* Foxconn 6627MA-8EKRS2H based on SiS662/966L chipset