ASUS Introduces Four Channel RDRAM Motherboard for Pentium 4 Architecture

Top-performing P4S13G is world's fastest motherboard for PC applications

RAMBUS DEVELOPER FORUM, TAIPEI,TAIWAN - November 06, 2003 - ASUSTeK Computer Inc. (ASUS), the worldwide leader of high-quality motherboards, announced the availability of P4S13G PC motherboard featuring four channels of RDRAM, making it the world's fastest motherboard for PC applications.

"Asus has combined the most innovative PC technologies into the feature-rich P4S13G PC motherboard" said Joe Hsieh, associate vice president of Sales and Marketing at Asus. "We are confident that users will find the four-channel RDRAM memory to deliver unprecedented performance."

Designed for multimedia gaming, content creation, and CAD applications, the P4S13G is based on the R659 chipset for top performance and dependability. With the extreme power of four-channel RDRAM, the P4S13G delivers a more realistic gaming experience, faster processing for digital video, and more computing speed for scientific applications.

"The launch of Asus P4S13G assures that our customers have access to the world's fastest motherboard, as well as a superior performance alternative to motherboards with dual DDR memory," said Do-Chan Choi, director of product planning at Samsung Electronics Corporation. "The four-channel architecture allows our customers to scale to even higher performance with future products using the forthcoming 1600MHz RDRAM."

Along with the highest memory bandwidth of four-channel RDRAM, the P4S13G supports a low-latency architecture and advanced features such as dynamic look-ahead cache and adaptive page management to significantly improve memory access speed. To harness even more power out of the Pentium® 4 CPU with 800MHz FSB, the P4S13G supports Advanced HyperStreaming™ Engine (AHSE) technology.

"As faster processors and new I/O standards come to market, PC motherboards will need faster memory performance," said Rich Warmke, director of marketing at Rambus. "Rambus will continue to work with industry leaders such as Asus and Samsung to bring highest performance solutions to desktop PCs."

The P4S13G offers superior memory performance compared with that of existing DDR 400 solutions. Combined with maximum support up to 4GB ECC or Non ECC unbuffered RIMM modules, the P4S13G is tailor made for the most memory-intensive applications

Key specifications:

• 800MHz FSB Intel® Pentium 4 Processor
• Four-channel RDRAM, 9.6GByte/sec memory bandwidth
• Maximum capacity 4GByte
• AGP 8x support
• Serial ATA RAID
• 1 x Gigabit LAN
• IEEE 802.11abg Wi-Fi
• 6 channel audio CODEC

About ASUS
Established in 1989, ASUSTeK Computer Inc. (TSE:2357) is the world's leading manufacturer of high quality motherboards, notebooks, VGA cards, servers, broadband modems, and optical storage devices. With annual sales of over US$2 billion and world-class engineering, ASUS provides innovative technology solutions to consumer, corporate and top-tier OEM customers. Company achievements include consecutive rankings in the "Top 100 InfoTech Companies" in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 by Business Week as well as being named the No.1 Taiwan Company in Global Views Monthly's "Info Tech 2000."

About Rambus Inc.
Rambus is one of the world's leading providers of chip-to-chip interface products and services. The company's breakthrough technology and engineering expertise have helped leading chip and system companies to solve their challenging I/O problems and bring industry-leading products to market. Rambus interface solutions can be found in numerous computing, consumer electronic and networking products. Additional information is available at www.rambus.com.

About Samsung
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, and digital convergence technology. Samsung Electronics employs approximately 64,000 people in 89 offices in 47 countries. Samsung Electronics is the world's leading producer of advanced semiconductors, TFT-LCDs, CDMA mobile phones, monitors and VCRs. Samsung Electronics consists of four main business units: Device Solution Network, Digital Media Network, Telecommunication Network and Digital Appliance Network Businesses. The Device Solution Network specializes in semiconductor and TFT LCD display products for industrial, mobile and advanced computing applications, offering a full line of key solutions of DRAMs, SRAMs, Display Driver ICs, Smart Card ICs, TFT LCD panels and Flash memories. The Device Solution Network operates 11 overseas sales subsidiaries and mass production facilities to maximize on hand customer support. For more information, visit our website at http://www.samsungsemi.com. Samsung Semiconductor Inc., a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., is located in San Jose, Calif. More information can be found at http//www.usa.samsungsemi.com/.