Alliance Semiconductor Corporation designs and manufactures memory and memory-intensive logic. Alliance's product lines include Static Random Access Memory (SRAM

Static random access memory

Static random-access memory is a type of semiconductor memory where the word static indicates that, unlike dynamic RAM , it does not need to be periodically refreshed, as SRAM uses bistable latching circuitry to store each bit...

), Pseudo SRAM (PSRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM

Dram

Dram or DRAM may refer to:As a unit of measure:* Dram , an imperial unit of mass and volume* Armenian dram, a monetary unit* Dirham, a unit of currency in several Arab nationsOther uses:...

), Flash Memory, and embedded memory and logic solutions. For a little while they also sold some video chipsets for PCs. Founded in 1985, Alliance is headquartered in Santa Clara, California

Santa Clara, California

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, with design centers in Santa Clara, as well as Hyderabad and Bangalore

Bangalore

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, India. NASDAQ symbol : ALSC.

ProMotion AT24

• Fast 128-bit GUI accelerator
• Optimized 24- and 32-bit truecolor
• 256 raster operations
• Source and destination transparencyNo-cost motion video(TM)
• Smooth scaling and color conversion
• 16 step bilinear filter
• On-chip line buffer
• DirectDraw/Direct Video/DCI support
• ../image and 24-bit video in 1MB buffer
• Hardware occlusionIntegrated DAC and clock generator
• Refresh rates to 120 Hz
• Gamma correction
• BetterHalf(TM) cost-saving technology
• VESA(R) standards support
• VAFC advanced feature connector
• DPMS power management
• DDC 2.0B Bi-directional monitor dataHigh throughput PCI interface
• Zero wait state bursts - 66MHz/PCI 2.1 compliant
• Fast 64-bit interleaved DRAM interface
  • 400MB/second peak bandwidth
  • EDO and fast page DRAM
• Programmable resolution to 1600X1200

Sale of business units

Alliance semiconductors sold all its 3 business units (Memory, Mixed signal, System) recently in the wake of mounting losses and reduced growth. Its Mixed signal business renamed as Pulsecore Semiconductor Inc. and it is managed by world's prominent venture capital firms like August capital, Shah capital. Alliance sold its system division to Tundra Semiconductor

Tundra Semiconductor

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation supplies communications, computing and storage companies with System Interconnect products, intellectual property and design services backed by customer service and technical support...

, a Canadian networking company.