ALi Corporation

ALi Corporation (also known as Acer Laboratories Incorporated or Acer Labs Inc., and commonly known as ALi) 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.

For the character Ali, see Ali (character).

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				None
	M1217			386SX	ISA		FPM				None
	M1419	M1421		386DX Socket 1 Socket 2	ISA		FPM				None
	M1429	M1431		386DX Socket 2 Socket 3	VESA						None
	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	Yes	2.1	No
ALADDiN III	M1521	M1523		Socket 7	66 MHz	FPM EDO BEDO SDRAM	66 MHz	1 GB	1MB	512MB	Yes	2.1	No
ALADDiN IV[1]	M1531	M1533		Socket 7	83 MHz	FPM EDO SDRAM	100 MHz	1 GB	1MB	512MB	Yes	2.1	No
ALADDiN IV+[1]	M1531B	M1533/M1543		Socket 7	83 MHz	FPM EDO SDRAM	100 MHz	1 GB	1MB	512MB	Yes	2.1	No
ALADDiN V[2] for ATX, NLX, LPX form factor[3]	M1541	M1543/M1543C		Super Socket 7	100 MHz	FPM EDO SDRAM	100 MHz	4 GB	1MB	1GB	Yes	2.1	2x
ALADDiN V[2] for Baby AT form factor[3]	M1542	M1543/M1543C		Super Socket 7	100 MHz	FPM EDO SDRAM	100 MHz	4 GB	1MB	1GB	Yes	2.1	2x
ALADDiN 7	M1561	M1535D		Super Socket 7	100 MHz	SDRAM	100 MHz	1 GB	1MB	1GB		2.1	No

Slot 1 and Socket 370 Chipsets

Chipset	Part Numbers	South Bridge	Release Date	Processors	FSB	Memory Types	Memory Bus	Max. memory	Parity/ ECC	PCI	AGP	IGP
ALADDiN PRO II	M1621	M1543/M1543C		Pentium II	66/100 MHz	EDO, SDRAM	66 - 100 MHz	2 GB	Yes	2.1	2x	No
ALADDiN TNT	M1631	M1535/M1535D		Pentium II, Pentium III, Celeron	66/100/133 MHz	EDO, SDRAM	66 - 133 MHz	1.5 GB	ECC	2.2	2x	NVIDIA TNT2
CyberBLADE ALADDiN i1	M1632M	M1535		Mobile Pentium II/Pentium III	66/100/133 MHz	EDO, SDRAM	66 - 133 MHz	1.5 GB	ECC	2.2	2x	Trident CyberBlade 3D
ALADDiN PRO 4	M1641	M1535/M1535D		Pentium II, Pentium III, Celeron	66/100 MHz	EDO, SDRAM	66 - 133 MHz	1.5 GB	ECC	2.2	4x	No
CyberALADDiN	M1644	M1535D+		Pentium II, Pentium III, Celeron	66/100/133 MHz	SDRAM, DDR	100/133 MHz SDRAM, 200/266 MHz DDR	3 GB	ECC	2.2	4x	Trident CyberBlade XP
CyberALADDiN-T	M1644T	M1535D+		Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium III Tualatin, Celeron	66/100/133 MHz	SDRAM, DDR	100/133 MHz SDRAM, 200/266 MHz DDR	3 GB	ECC	2.2	4x	Trident CyberBlade XP
ALADDiN PRO 5	M1651	M1535D+		Pentium II, Pentium III, Celeron	100/133 MHz	SDRAM, DDR	100/133 MHz SDRAM, 200/266 MHz DDR	3 GB	ECC	2.2	4x	No
ALADDiN PRO 5T	M1651T	M1535D+		Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium III Tualatin, Celeron	100/133 MHz	SDRAM, DDR	100/133 MHz SDRAM, 200/266 MHz DDR	3 GB	ECC	2.2	4x	No

Slot A and Socket A Chipsets

Chipset	Part Numbers	South Bridge	Release Date	Processors	FSB	Memory Types	Memory Bus	Max. memory	AGP	IGP
CyberMAGiK 1	M1646	M1535+		Mobile Athlon/Athlon XP/Duron	200/266 MHz	SDRAM, DDR	100/133 MHz SDRAM, 200/266 MHz DDR	3 GB	4x	Trident CyberBlade XP
MAGiK 1	M1647	M1535D+		Athlon, Athlon XP, Duron	200/266 MHz	SDRAM, DDR	100/133 MHz SDRAM, 200/266 MHz DDR	3 GB	4x	No
MAGiK 1 SDRAM	M1649	M1535D+		Athlon, Athlon XP, Duron	200/266 MHz	SDRAM	100/133 MHz SDRAM	3 GB	4x	No
MAGiK 2^[*]	M1667	M1563		Athlon, Athlon XP, Duron	200/266 MHz	SDRAM, DDR	100/133 MHz SDRAM, 200/266/333 MHz DDR		8x	No

^[*] It was not implemented.

Socket 478 Chipsets

Chipset	Part Numbers	South Bridge	Release Date	Processors	FSB	Memory Types	Memory Bus	Max. memory	AGP	IGP
ALADDiN-P4	M1671	M1535D+		Pentium 4, Celeron	400 MHz	SDRAM, DDR	100/133 MHz SDRAM, 200/266/333 MHz DDR	3 GB	4x	No
CyberALADDiN-P4	M1672	M1535+		Mobile Pentium 4/Celeron	400 MHz	SDRAM, DDR	100/133 MHz SDRAM, 200/266 MHz DDR	3 GB	4x	Trident CyberBlade XP2
A8XN	M1681	M1563		Pentium 4, Celeron	400/533 MHz	SDRAM, DDR	100/133 MHz SDRAM, 200/266/333/400 MHz DDR	3 GB	8x	No
A800N	M1683	M1563		Pentium 4, Celeron	400/533/800 MHz	SDRAM, DDR	100/133 MHz SDRAM, 200/266/333/400 MHz DDR	3 GB	8x	No

Socket 754/939/940 Chipsets

Chipset	Part Numbers	South Bridge	Release Date	Processors	HyperTransport	Memory Types	Memory Bus	Max. memory	AGP	PCI-e	IGP
ALi M1687	M1687	M1563		Athlon 64, Sempron	1600 MT/s	DDR	200/266/333 MHz DDR	4 GB	8x	No	No
ULi M1689	M1689	Integrated		Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2, Sempron	2000 MT/s	DDR	266/333/400 MHz DDR	4 GB	8x	No	No
ULi M1695	M1695	M1567		Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2, Sempron	2000 MT/s	DDR	266/333/400 MHz DDR	4 GB	8x	x16	No
ULi M1697	M1697	Integrated		Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2, Sempron	2000 MT/s	DDR	266/333/400 MHz DDR	4 GB	No	x16	No

Southbridge Chips

Part Numbers	NB Interconnect	PATA	SATA	SATA RAID	PCI	USB	Audio	Ethernet
M1487	PCI	PIO 0/1/2/3/4			2.0	No	No	No
M1523	PCI	UDMA 33			2.1	No	No	No
M1523B	PCI	UDMA 33			2.1	2 x 1.0	No	No
M1533	PCI	UDMA 33			2.1	2 x 1.0	No	No
M1543	PCI	UDMA 33/66			2.1	2 x 1.0	No	No
M1543C	PCI	UDMA 33/66			2.1	3 x 1.0	No	No
M1535/M1535D	PCI	UDMA 33/66			2.2	4 x 1.0	AC'97 2.1	No
M1535+/M1535D+	PCI	UDMA 33/66/100			2.2	6 x 1.1	AC'97 2.1	No
M1563	HyperTransport 800MT/s	UDMA 33/66/100/133			2.2	6 x 2.0	AC'97 2.2	10/100Mbps
M1567	HyperTransport 1000MT/s	UDMA 33/66/100/133	1.0 (1.5 Gbit/s)	0/1/JBOD	2.2	8 x 2.0	AC'97 2.2	10/100Mbps
M1573^[*]	PCI Express	UDMA 33/66/100/133	1.0 (1.5 Gbit/s)	0/1/JBOD	2.3	8 x 2.0	HD Audio	10/100Mbps
M1575^[**]	PCI Express	UDMA 33/66/100/133	2.0 (3 Gbit/s)	0/1/0+1/5/JBOD	2.3	8 x 2.0	HD Audio	10/100Mbps
M1689^[***]	N/A	UDMA 33/66/100/133	1.0 (1.5 Gbit/s)	0/1/JBOD	2.3	8 x 2.0	AC'97 2.2	10/100Mbps
M1697^[***]	N/A	UDMA 33/66/100/133	2.0 (3 Gbit/s)	0/1/0+1/5/JBOD	2.3	8 x 2.0	HD Audio	10/100Mbps

^[*]Used with ATI Radeon Xpress 200 chipsets (RS480, RX480)

^[**]Used with ATI Radeon Xpress 200 chipsets (RS482, RS485, RD480)

^[***]Table shows the I/O capabilities of these single-chip chipsets, which do not have a physical "southbridge".

• 
  ALi M1541-based motherboard with AMD K6-2 300MHz processor.
• 
  ALi M1535 southbridge chip from a Fujitsu Lifebook P series laptop

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 (S3 Trio 64V+ compatible ?)
• M3149 GUI Accelerator, 4MB
• M3151 GUI Accelerator, 8 MB

• 
  A M3147V VGA card

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 (MIPS architecture)
  • A1 (216 pin)
  • B1 (216 pin)
  • C E1 (128 pin)
    • PF (parallel)
    • SF (serial)
• M3330 CPU

PC peripheral

An ALi M5617 USB Scanner Controller

• 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 (USB 2.0), M5617 (USB 1.1) 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

ISA card with ALi M6117.

M6117 is a highly integrated, low voltage, single-chip implementation of the Intel 386SX compatible microprocessor plus ALi M1217 chipset. The M6117 provides a static 386SX core, DRAM controller, ISA bus logic, real time clock, keyboard controller, and power management unit.

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.

See also

• Comparison of AMD chipsets
• Comparison of ATI chipsets
• List of Intel chipsets
• Comparison of Nvidia chipsets
• List of VIA chipsets

References

1. , Anandtech Chipset Guide.
2. , Anandtech Chipset Guide.
3. , ALi M1541/M1542 datasheet.

External links

• Official site
• Technical info (Chinese)