Angstrom Microsystems Corp (fka AGMS)

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ANGS.OB Provides High-Performance, Reliable Rendering Solutions

Angstrom Microsystems, Inc. (ANGS.OB), a manufacturer of high-performance data center and workstation solutions and computers, offers highly efficient cooling and power systems that save energy costs for large data centers. The company’s state-of-the-art rendering solutions provide high-performance and reliability while mitigating the need to invest in new infrastructure by make the existing infrastructure more efficient.

Angstrom’s rendering services utilize super cooling technology, allowing servers to run error-free and more efficiently. In addition, the company’s dual processor AMD solutions provide highly reliable rendering applications that outperform comparable Intel-based platforms. Angstrom strives for excellence in performance and reliability. The company’s engineers deploy and maintain render farms and assist with software and driver selection to ensure high performance. Selecting quality components is the first step in creating a solution that performs to its maximum potential. After completing a stringent selection process and careful assembly, the company subjects its servers to rigorous testing for days before deployment in the field.

Angstrom not only provides high-performance systems but also utilizes environmentally friendly, highly efficient cooling and power systems that reduce energy costs. The company’s liquid cooling technology reduces overall power consumption and air conditioning costs for large data centers. Unlike most liquid cooling solutions that require chilled water, Angstrom utilizes certified environmentally friendly fluid that is not electrically conductive and will not interfere with operations. Angstrom’s liquid cooling technology is currently in development and is ideally suited for large data clusters.

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ANGS.OB Stock Price Increases 40% in Four Trading Days

Angstrom Microsystems Inc., a manufacturer of high-performance data center and workstation solutions and computers, offers highly efficient cooling and power systems that save on energy costs for large data centers. The company recently announced the proposed merger with Angstrom Technologies Corp.’s wholly owned subsidiary, Angstrom Acquisition Corp., which has attracted the eyes of many investors.

Angstrom specializes in green computing solutions, providing blade servers and workstations uniquely designed for the high-energy demand data center sector. Angstrom also offers unique liquid cooling and ultra-efficient power technologies that significantly reduce the electricity needed to operate computers in these facilities.

Currently, the delivery of power is highly inefficient in data centers with up to 50 percent of power being wasted by the time power reaches the motherboard infrastructure. The technology is available for data centers to easily triple computing capacity; however, poor power utilization and archaic air cooling devices hinder this progress. Angstrom provides solutions that mitigate the need to invest in new infrastructure by make the existing infrastructure more efficient.

Angstrom is well positioned to benefit from the current worldwide green technology movement. The company’s stock has traded on high volume over the past couple of trading sessions as investors have begun to take notice of Angstrom’s proprietary technology and its potential in the growing green technology industry.

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ANGS.OB Develops SuperBlade and SuperNest to Provide Flexibility and Efficiency

Angstrom Microsystems, Inc. provides cooling technology to reduce energy consumption and wasted energy in large data centers. The company designed three types of SuperBlades, which are ultra-dense servers designed for super-computing and clustering deployments. There’s the Classic SuperBlade server, HPC SuperBlade Server, and the Creator SuperBlade workstation.

The servers have greater density and quality, and are more easily maintained and managed than traditional servers. The SuperBlades provide power through an internal power connector and is mounted vertically in a row into a “SuperNest,” which is the case or enclosure to mount and cable the SuperBlades.

Thirty one hot-swappable SuperBlades, fans, cables and a PDU comprise the SuperBlade nest. The cooling rack is rack-based, rather than blade-based, which results in the need for fewer fans to cool each server. The nest can hold either SuperBlades or standard servers – offering a flexibility that lets customers switch between networks, consoler servers or other related gear.

SuperNests are like Lego blocks, with the ability to be stacked 5.5 nests high to create the standard seven-inch rack. The nest can accommodate up to 130 servers when stacked back-to-back. The SuperBlades and SuperNests offer cooling with fewer points of failure; are cost effective, using 4 Athlon MP 2400+ processors; are easy to maintain; and are flexible, as the blades and rackmount gear can be placed in several configurations.

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ANGS.OB Announces the Signing of a Definitive Agreement

Angstrom Technologies Corp. announced this afternoon that it has signed a definitive agreement that outlines the merger of its wholly owned subsidiary, Angstrom Acquisition Corp., with Angstrom Microsystems Inc. (AMI). Once the merger is completed, Angstrom Technologies Corp. plans to change its name to Angstrom Microsystems Corp. in order to accurately reflect its new business direction.

Angstrom Microsystems is a green computing solutions company that is focused on providing blade servers and workstations specifically designed for the energy-demanding datacenter sector. The company also provides software that dramatically reduces the number of machines required to complete a given task. By combining this technology with state-of-the-art cooling techniques, the company significantly reduces energy consumption while preserving high performance computing.

Terms and conditions to be met prior to the closing of the merger include: “(i) AMI obtaining the requisite shareholder approval; (ii) AMI delivering all financial statements required to consummate the merger; (iii) the Company having appointed nominees of AMI and the Company’s President to the board of directors; (iv) the parties entering into certain employment agreements with management of AMI; (v) the principals of AMI licensing certain patents of AMI to the Company; and (vi) the Company adopting a stock incentive option plan for employees and consultants.”

Angstrom Technologies Corp. CEO Alpha Pang stated, “I am excited in the new direction our Company is expected to take with this merger. With the completion of the Merger we expect to be able to move the Company forward in a positive direction to help create shareholder value. The server market alone is a several-billion-dollar industry; the fact that Angstrom Microsystems Inc., addresses a bourgeoning problem within this industry offers even more value and opportunity to our company.”

“I am therefore happy and prepare to pass the reins on to Angstrom Microsystems Inc.’s founder Mr. Lalit Jain, as the new CEO of Angstrom Technologies Corp. to lead Angstrom into a new future once the merger is completed. Mr. Jain is an alumnus of MIT and brings with him numerous years of experience in this sector, as well as over $50 million in revenues since Angstrom Microsystems Inc.’s inception,” he continued.

Lalit Jain, CEO of Angstrom Microsystems Inc, responded, “I am excited by this opportunity to lead this company and hope to enhance shareholder value by adding Angstrom’s powerful energy-saving solutions. With energy prices soaring to record levels and energy consumption surging throughout the world, Angstrom reduces energy usage in the datacenter to do more with less. Going green used to mean spending more of your hard earned ‘green.’ However, using Angstrom solutions is an environmentally-conscious way to save your ‘green’ from day one!”

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ANGS.OB - Down on the Rendering Farm

Each day more and more technically advanced, special-effects enhanced movies are released. In the beginning of the special effects wave, all of the effects were done via miniature modeling and clay shooting. The monsters were made in clay approximately the size of a GI Joe, and its movements were filmed a few frames at a time. Finally, the film editors would splice the scenes to run in sequence, and we’d get our scary movie, complete with monster. Unfortunately, this monster often seemed a bit unrefined and its movements “herky jerky”.

When digital special effects came on the scene, two things became stunningly clear. First, the improvement over the original film recording was incredible, and second, it was abundantly clear that the industry was not equipped to deal with the storage and “rendering” problem that creating all that digital content required. So, what’s rendering? Better yet, what gets rendered?

Computer-generated imagery (also known as CGI) is the application of computer graphics, or more specifically, 3D computer graphics, to special effects in films, television programs, commercials, simulators and simulation. In a simple production, this computer generated imagery can be stored and shared on a small hard drive-type disc. But, what happens when you have dozens of computer artists working on a feature length film such as Star wars, or one of the follow up episodes? Then you need a “render farm”.

A render farm is a cluster of servers on which these animation artists can store and retrieve their work. This render farm is far beyond the simple computer hard drive, as animators often “overlay” an image a hundred times, each enhancement (like “skinning”) adding another layer of pixelation, or detail. This takes an enormous amount of computer processor power, and requires a way to keep those power-hungry processors running cool and efficiently. This is where Angstrom Microsystems shines. They have years of experience with the leading special effects companies, including Industrial Light and Magic, a subsidiary of LucasFilm. In fact, Angstrom supplied their Titan64 SuperBlade™ rendering servers at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) to render the special effects for Star Wars Episode III. In a visual effects-laden film such as Star Wars, nearly every minute of the 140-minute film included work by ILM.

How much work? To produce the final shots, compositors combine several layers of rendered elements for each frame. A 100-layer shot is not unusual; most shots include at least 20 layers. It took 6,598,928 hours of aggregate render time to produce the shots in Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith.

All the while the “render farm” has to offer up these snippets as fast as possible, requiring incredibly efficient servers to battle the energy demands and the heat that’s produced. Angstrom Microsystems came through in that type of heavy industrial use like a champ. In fact one could argue that a more intense application of render technology had never been seen before.

Angstrom Microsystems is an engineering and computing firm that can meet and exceed the needs of a LucasFilm and ILM production. It is no wonder that, in the “less intense” commercial applications, Angstrom has proven to be a leader. The wide range of problems in distributed computing requires innovative solutions to computing requirements. At Angstrom, they take an application-oriented approach to developing server technology for their customers. They analyze the computing and storage needs of an application and combine this information with the customer’s price/performance criteria to build a total solution that provides a highly-reliable system that performs well at a competitive price.

As the incidence of special effects and high technology, high definition film evolves, rendering will take more and more high-level computing, and Angstrom is the optimum choice to solve these computing problems. Investors would be wise to consider this company as the digital revolution advances.

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ANGS.OB - Transforming for Profits

If you were to go to the car dealers and shop for a new vehicle, somewhere along in the negotiations the question of fuel efficiency would arise. “What kind of mileage can I expect” sounds like a question that would surely be asked. Why? Because energy, especially as we have seen lately, is very expensive “stuff.” We need to conserve it as much as possible, both for the good of our planet and the good of our pocketbook. But sometimes energy is wasted through no fault of our own. Sometimes inefficiencies are built into the infrastructures that we rely on every day, although no one really notices it. Until they do the math.

Angstrom Microsystems Inc. (which trades under the symbol ANGS) knows where some of these inefficiencies lay when it comes to the electrical power infrastructure that enters into most computer data centers. Having built their business upon the engineering of high efficiency computing solutions, they have looked into the areas of energy loss that most people overlook. In fact, when presented with the facts, the average data center manager/owner is astounded by the energy drain of the typical power setup. For instance, the street power – power entering the datacenter from “the street” - is typically 3-phase 480V in the United States. Each stage that it passes through, including the very copper wire transmitting it, reduces its efficiency. Okay, we all expect a small drop in energy efficiency as the electricity passes along its route, but how bad can it be?

Very bad. When the power first enters the data center from the street, it typically heads into a “UPS,” or more commonly known as the “battery backup” area, which provides the power to the center in the event of a power failure. Even in the most modern UPS technology, there can be a loss of 2-10 percent on the energy supplied. From the 3 phase 480 volts, most data centers run the power through a PDU rectifier, taking the voltage down to 208V, which will eat anywhere from 7 to a whopping 25 percent of the input power in the transformation. Then the newly minted 208 volts of AC power goes into the individual server power supplies, and once again loses anywhere from 20 to 35 percent. Finally, just in the act of moving along the wiring, A/C current will often drop by another 2-5 percent.

Add it all together and the typical data center is paying for power that is seeing 35-50 percent wasted before it actually gets to the motherboards of its computers. This is a horrible waste of energy and money, and Angstrom has developed a unique way of putting an end to that waste, Angstrom’s solution is a high efficiency 480VAC 3-phase rectifier that converts those 480 volts of Alternating current, to 30 volts of DC current. That is then fed into a high efficiency DC distribution center that feeds the motherboards the required Direct current they require.

The savings are nothing shy of stunning. The company’s 3-phase rectifier and DC power supply combination average in at 84 percent efficiency, compared to the 50-percent the typical infrastructure is currently yielding. That’s a savings of 34 percent of the power invested, which at today’s prices can be tens of thousands of dollars to a standard data center.

With savings that large, it’s no wonder that Angstrom’s “MaxPowerSmart” solutions are in strong demand at data centers around the world. It’s just another reason that Angstrom is leading the way in progressive high efficiency computing solutions. Investors with an eye for “green” companies should keep an eye on this one.

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ANGS.OB Beats the Heat

Here’s an ironic twist of physics to ponder. There are virtually tens of millions of applications that require enormous amounts of energy to produce heat, while at the very same time other applications require enormous amounts of energy but produce unwanted heat as an industrial byproduct. As a simple example, let’s consider a car engine. We are told that the reason we put oil in the engine is to reduce friction. To “lubricate” the moving parts. Yet in reality, what we are trying to do is reduce the “effects” of friction, which in every instance is heat energy. Allow the moving parts to become too hot and they will expand, grind against each other, and ultimately fail. Consequently the car engine has to spend a portion of its very expensive fuel energy for running a radiator fan and a water pump to keep the temperatures down.

If you are trying to produce heat, you have to use up some form of energy, whether chemical or mechanical. But even if your goal is to eliminate heat, you have to use up energy, and this is where Angstrom Microsystems comes in. Angstrom has developed cooling systems for computer servers, server racks, data nodes, and server farms that far surpass the standard air cooling architecture generally seen. By lowering the working temperature of the computer servers, they can cluster more of them together, reduce the “footprint” of the server farm, and most importantly, cut the amount of energy used by the center, by a factor of 30 percent.

Angstrom, which trades under the symbol ANGS, is an engineering company, a computing company and an environmental company all in one. Their LiquiCool architecture for effective cooling of high power servers is flexible and fits the requirements of most data centers. While that’s great news, the real story is in the energy savings. Via provable data, Angstrom can demonstrate a 30-percent savings in electrical use by utilizing their power modules and their “liquicool” heat reducing architecture.

Where does the energy savings come from? The biggest expense a server cluster farm generally has is “air conditioning” costs as they try and keep their cluster room cool. Computers that get hot will indeed fail, and air conditioning is the standard way of addressing the problem. Unfortunately it’s not terribly efficient, and - just as bad - it creates noise, limits the areas you can place your servers, and costs a lot. Angstrom’s approach virtually eliminates the need for an air conditioned cluster room.

Angtrom’s approach works like this:

Heat exchangers convert gas that is created by the computer cooling process back into a liquid form. The liquid absorbs heat from the exchangers placed around the servers, and turns into a gas. Gas rises through pipes to a location above the computers, usually on the roof, where it is cooled by:

• Air blowing across the pipes
• Water flowing across the pipes
• Water evaporating on the pipes

The gas condenses back into a liquid and falls back down the tubing into the heat exchangers again, only to have the process repeat over and over. Unlike any other liquid cooling product, Angstrom LiquiCool provides a variety of heat exchanger technologies that fit virtually any specific data center requirements.

The installation of an Angstrom Liquicool system can pay for itself in less than two years via the reduction of energy use and its ability to allow a denser cluster of servers under one roof. For the data center, this is something that simply cannot be ignored, and it’s the reason Angstrom has seen strong demand for its systems.

If this technology was all Angstrom provided, it would make for an interesting investment vehicle to consider. But this is just one of the several services ANGS provides, and is one of the reasons that Angstrom should be on your investing radar screen.

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ANGS.OB is Going Green, Improving Power Efficiency and Lowering Computer Data Centers’ Cooling Costs

While computers have put a considerable dent in the amount of paper used for personal and business communication, there are still steps that can be taken to improve environmentally friendly standards. Angstrom Technologies (OTCBB: ANGS) has developed a way to decrease the amount of energy large computer data centers use each day. The company has launched its Green Computing Initiative to increase energy efficiency to data centers.

According to the company, only 42 cents of every dollar spent by data centers for cooling systems are not wasted. Thirty cents of every dollar spent on electricity in the data centers is used on air conditioning; however, up to 40 percent of the power is lost during power transmission.

Angstrom’s LiquiCool solution is applicable to existing infrastructure and can double the number of machines cooled without the need to build new facilities. California energy costs run at 12 cents per kW/hour; using Angstrom’s technologies, a 500kW facility could save more than $200,000 each year in electricity.

The company’s solutions include the analysis of computing and storage needs for each data center. It then combines this with information regarding the customer’s price and performance needs to create a reliable, cost efficient alternative to current cooling methods.

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ANGS.OB Super Blade Servers are Perfect for Large Cluster Farm Installations

The company’s line of Super Blade servers offer a number of advantages and improvements over tradition Server systems, allowing customers to replace standard rack mount servers for optimum efficiency. These improvements are all provided at a lower cost than Standard rack mount servers. The Super Blade servers are designed specifically for Supercomputing and clustering deployments.

Angstrom’s line of Super Blades provides a number of unique advancements to customers, the first being higher manufacturing and product design quality. These units also provide better cooling and have far less points of failure. Another advantage is their compatibility with standard components, which allows easy, cost effective system building.

The Super Nest is the company’s’ server enclosure. This Super Nest is not only compatible with the company’s Super Blade servers, but is also compatible with traditional Rack Mount Servers. This allows users to build switches and other gear into the Super Blade Cluster when using the Super Nest.

The Super Blade servers come in three different styles: Classic, HPC and Creator. The Classic Super Blades provide the best product benefit at the lowest cost. A step up from this is the HPC Super Blade, which is designed to eliminate messy cables. The Creator Super Blade brings the benefits of Super Blade servers to workstations.

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ANGS.OB Saves Power and Money for Large Data Centers

Angstrom Technologies (OTCBB: ANGS) is focused on reducing computing costs linked to electricity and power in large data centers. Up to 50% of power efficiency can be wasted by the time the power reaches its destination. The company provides solutions that reduce the need for new infrastructure by making the data center’s current infrastructure more efficient.

According to the company, most power entering U.S. data centers are 3-phase 480V. Traveling through each of the three stages, the power loses between 2% and 10% of its efficiency. A 208VAC allows for the transmittance of power with a loss between 20% and 35%; air conditioning signals can lose up to 10% of efficiency simply by traveling through the wire.

So by the time the power reaches the main boards of a computer, it can lose up to 50% of its efficiency. Angstrom’s technology is designed to reduce the amount of efficiency lost with each transmittance. The company’s 480VAC 3-phase rectifier converts VAC to 300VDC. Each blade converts DC power into EPS standard, which is used by most standard motherboards.

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ANGS.OB Offers Data Center Cooling Technology, Sending Heat through the Roof

Angstrom Technologies (OTCBB: ANGS) has created a revolutionary cooling solution designed to save data centers money and resources used to cool computers and other components. The company’s LiquiCool technology allows existing data centers to remain in their existing facilities while reducing the need for air conditioning by up to 30%.

LiquiCool provides an array of heat exchanger technologies, such as chilled water to the rack, for data centers designed for chilled water cooling. Unlike IBM or HP technologies, these racks use less water because the racks do not need to be cooled less than 1 degree Celsius. The heat is removed from the computer by two-phased technology, eliminated the need for air-cooling technology.

Angstrom’s technology replaces the traditional air-cooling of data centers’ computers with a liquid cooling solution designed to reduce not only air conditioning usage, but power consumption and noise generation as well.

Angstrom’s Self Cooling racks require only minimum airflow and can be sealed from current data center environments. The racks utilize heat exchangers to convert gas created by the computer cooling process into a liquid form. The gas rises through pipes to an outside location, usually the roof, where it is cooled by air or water moving across the pipes, or water evaporating on the pipes.

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ANGS.OB Provides Cooling Solutions for Large Data Centers

Angstrom Technologies (OTCBB: ANGS) focuses on reducing the computing costs in large data centers. According to the company, up to 50% of power is wasted by the time it reaches the main infrastructure. The company’s liquid cooling and efficient power technologies reduce the amount of electricity needed to operate computers in large facilities, lowering costs and making the centers more cost efficient.

Large data centers require more computing systems, greater density of those computing systems and more power for each new generation of microprocessors and memory. In the past, data centers have increased air conditioning to create better air flow, while computer manufacturers have installed high-speed fans to redirect air into the computer racks. Now, Angstrom’s patent pending cooling solutions allow direct 2-phase cooling and redirection of heat from the racks to other locations of the data center.

To provide such needed cooling, the company uses chilled water instead of IBM or HP technologies. Chilled water does not need to cool the rack more than 1 degree Celsius, and heat is removed from the computer through the direct 2-phase technology – without the need of air conditioning. Angstrom’s technology saves data centers high cooling costs, reduces TCO of running a data center of computers, allows deployment of computers in “environmentally challenged areas,” and reduces pollution with its low-energy-impact solutions.

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ANGS.OB Provides Cooling Solutions Designed to Save Money and Increase Efficiency

According to Angstrom Technologies (OTCBB: ANGS), only 58 cents of every dollar spent by a data center are considered “not wasted.” Using the company’s patent pending LiquiCool solutions, more than 81 cents of every dollar are put to good use.

Angstrom offers a variety of solutions to keep motherboards cool, while keeping costs low. For data centers built for chilled water cooling, Angstrom’s technology requires less chilled water because the water does not need to be cooled more than 1 degree Celsius. Through their method, heat is removed through 2-phase technology, not air conditioning.

For data centers requiring greater density, but lacking room for additional HVAC plumbing for Angstrom’s LiquiCool system, the heat exchanger is placed on top of the racks, efficient anywhere within the existing data center.

Data centers positioned near streams and salt water have the advantage of using the water from these resources. Here the water is cooled through gas pipes that intertwine with pipes flowing with water.

For data centers already equipped with a chilled water infrastructure, chilled water on the roof can replace the need for a conductive substance such as water deep inside a data center to cool each new rack. Nearly any existing cooling product used by a business can be cost efficiently replaced to substantially lower costs because of Angstrom’s innovative technologies.

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ANGS.OB is “One to Watch”

Angstrom Technologies, Inc. (ANGS.OB) has developed innovative technologies to combat rising energy prices. As computers continue to increase in performance, the amount of energy required continues to rise. By using Angstrom’s liquid cooling, ultra-efficient power technologies and acceleration software, businesses can substantially decrease their computing costs by reducing the power needed.

Angstrom has uniquely positioned itself as a Green Computing solutions company as it provides environmentally friendly computing solutions that reduce dependence on foreign oils. The Company’s solutions stand out from the competition as they require only minimal change to existing hardware and software configuration. The markets targeted by the company are large and growing as the demand for more powerful computing solutions continues to grow.

According to a report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, Data center computers use more power than all of the color televisions in the United Stated. Billions of dollars are wasted every year because of inefficient power and cooling systems. Compounding this desperate need for a solution is the increasing demand for higher performance computing squeezed into the same amount of space.

The Company has many high profile customers in the Hollywood space including Pixar, Industrial Light and Magic, Blue Sky Studios, and Fox Films. Other significant clients in various industries include Credit Suisse, DE Shaw, ConocoPhilips, Sega, Matsushita, and EAD Airbus.