Appian Technology Inc, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, has a new power manager controller for laptop and notebook personal computers, the PowerMizer: the chip is designed for laptop, notebook and portable computer systems, and it conserves battery power by controlling circuits and peripherals during operation; the PowerMizer works in conjunction with Appian’s system 90/SX bus-based 80386SX chip set, and it has eight power control outputs, eight input-outputs, three battery level inputs, eight timer channels, an activity monitor, clock generation and NMI circuits, refresh and power down circuits.
