Through over eight years of research and development, Angstrom's energy efficient, high-end blade servers, workstations and software solutions have been designed to provide maximum performance, thereby reducing costs for clients in multiple ways. With both hardware and software solutions to reduce the power needed to drive computing, Angstrom reduces the number of machines required to facilitate mission critical tasks, thus saving clients significant investment and maintenance costs. Angstrom also utilizes only environmentally friendly materials and chemicals in its manufacturing processes, and all the company's product packaging and shipping crates are made from recycled materials.

Angstrom's green computing initiative is powered by:

• Energy Efficient Liquid Cooled Blade Servers: Angstrom's liquid cooled blade servers use non-electrically conductive fluid that is non-toxic, non-flammable and environmentally friendly unlike competitors who may use chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), or water, which is a conductive liquid. Cooling accounts for 30% of monthly costs in a typical data centre. Angstrom's technology eliminates over 75% of that 30% which results in significant return-on-investment improvement for its clients.
• Ultra-High Efficiency Power Solution: Angstrom's MaxPowerSmart is an ultra-high efficiency 480VAC 3-phase and 48VDC solution that provides power to standard motherboards used by the Angstrom blade and rack-mount products. Angstrom racks can accept 48VDC power and redundant A/C power from separate grids. MaxPowerSmart allows blade server racks to plug directly to "street" power, bypassing costly and inherently inefficient data centre power distribution units (PDUs), enabling 82% power efficiency to the rack, as compared to the 50-70% offered in most other standard solutions.
• Software-based Acceleration: Angstrom provides software-based acceleration solutions to significantly reduce the number of machines required to perform a given task. Fewer machines for the same performance coupled with less cooling power consumption per machine results in a significantly more energy-efficient data centre. The Company's Xfactor Plus software acceleration libraries accelerate the performance of targeted software applications and libraries by 10-100x.
• Use of Only Environmentally Friendly Materials: The company strives to use only environmentally friendly materials in its products and manufacturing processes. Angstrom does not utilize chemicals that can cause hazardous waste or environmentally harmful emissions such as fluorocarbons. Going even further, the company only uses materials that comply with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (ROHS).
• Reusable Product Shipping Materials: Angstrom's shipping containers are wooden crates for delivery of its blade servers. After product delivery, customers ship back the shipping containers to the company so it can be recycled and reused. All aspects of its packaging are reusable and Angstrom avoids non-biodegradable packaging wherever possible.

Commenting on the green computing initiative, Lalit Jain, CEO of Angstrom Microsystems, stated: "Green computing is not just a buzz word or passing fad for Angstrom or our clients. Rather, it is fundamentally at the core of what we do. Our client companies are concerned about the environment and want to reduce their carbon footprints, but they also want great return on their computing investments. We are pleased that we are increasingly becoming the vendor of choice for both. We reduce power consumption in three ways: by reducing the number of computers necessary to operate; reducing the power to cool the computers that are used; and finally by improving the electrical efficiency of each computer."

"Furthermore, we only use environmentally safe materials in our products and manufacturing processes, and reuse all our packing and shipping materials as many times as we can. We are also focused on helping our clients reduce their carbon footprint by saving energy and reducing their hardware costs through the use of our proprietary software acceleration technologies. While we have always been an environmentally aware company, it is nice to see the market finally catching up and recognizing us as a leader."