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Acer Laboratories Incorporated

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Manufacturing company

ALi Corporation (formerly 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 was a subsidiary of the Acer group. The company was founded in 1987, and later spun off from Acer group in 1993.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1987Founded1

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ALi Corporation headquarters 20200223
Photo: Solomon203, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

ALi Corporation (formerly 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 was a subsidiary of the Acer group.2

Products and brands

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 ?)

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M3149 GUI Accelerator, 4 MB

M3151 GUI Accelerator, 8 MB

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

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 drive 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

M6117 is a highly integrated, low voltage, single-chip implementation of the Intel 386SX compatible microprocessor subsystem plus ALi M1217 chipset. The M6117 provides a static 386SX core derived from V.M. Technology VM386SX+ microprocessor, a DRAM controller, ISA bus logic, a real time clock, a keyboard controller, and a 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.

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Timeline

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