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''For other people named Steve King, see [[Stephen King (disambiguation)]].''
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[[Image:AMD Geode LX 800@0.9W Processor (white background).jpg|thumb|AMD Geode LX 800 (500MHz, 0.9W) processor.]]
[[Image:Alix.1C board with AMD Geode LX 800 (PC Engines).jpg|thumb|Alix.1C [[Mini-ITX]] embedded board with AMD Geode LX 800 together with [[Compact Flash]], [[miniPCI]] and PCI slots, 44-pin [[Integrated Drive Electronics|IDE]] interface and 256MB RAM.]]
: ''For other uses of Geode, see [[Geode (disambiguation)]]''


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'''Geode''' is a series of [[x86]]-compatible [[System-on-a-chip]] [[microprocessor]]s and I/O companions produced by [[AMD]] targeted at the [[Embedded system|embedded computing]] market.
|name=Steve King |image name=Steve King, official Congressional photo portrait.jpg
|state=[[Iowa]]
|district=[[Iowa's 5th congressional district|5th]]
|party=[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|term_start =[[January 3]], [[2003]]
|preceded=[[Tom Latham]]
|succeeded=[[Incumbent]]
|date of birth= {{birth date and age|1949|05|28}}
|place of birth= [[Storm Lake, Iowa]]
|religion= [[Roman Catholic]]
|alma_mater=HS diploma
|occupation=construction contractor
|residence=[[Kiron, Iowa]]
|spouse=Marilyn King
}}


'''Steven Arnold "Steve" King''' (born May 28, 1949) is an [[United States|American]] [[politician]] who is a member of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] representing the [[Iowa's 5th congressional district|5th District of Iowa]] in the [[United States House of Representatives]] since 2003.
The series was originally launched by [[National Semiconductor]] as the '''Geode''' family in 1999. The original Geode processor core itself is derived from the [[Cyrix]] [[MediaGX]] platform, which was acquired in National's merger with Cyrix in 1997. AMD bought the Geode business from National in August 2003 to augment its existing line of embedded x86 processor products. AMD expanded the Geode series to two classes of processor: the MediaGX-derived Geode GX and LX, and the modern [[Athlon]]-derived Geode NX.


== Early life and career ==
Geode processors are optimized for low power consumption and low cost while still remaining compatible with software written for the x86 platform. The MediaGX-derived processors lack modern features such as [[Streaming SIMD Extensions|SSE]] and a large on-die [[L1 cache]] but these are offered on the more recent Athlon-derived Geode NX. Geode processors tightly integrate some of the functions normally provided by a separate [[chipset]], such as the [[Northbridge (computing)|northbridge]]. The processor family is best suited for [[thin client]], [[set top box]] and [[Embedded system|embedded computing]] applications.
King is a lifelong resident of northwestern Iowa. He was born on [[May 28]], [[1949]] in [[Storm Lake, Iowa|Storm Lake]], but currently calls [[Kiron, Iowa|Kiron]] home. He attended [[Northwest Missouri State University]] from 1967 to 1968. In 1975 he founded King Construction Company. He ran for an open seat in the [[Iowa State Senate]] in 1996 and won. He was reelected in 2000.


== U.S. House of Representatives ==
The [[One Laptop per Child]] project originally used the GX series Geode processor in the [[OLPC XO]]; but has since moved to the Geode LX. The [[Linutop]] is also based on the Geode LX. [[3Com Audrey]] was powered by a 200 MHz Geode GX1.
=== Elections ===
In 2002, after [[redistricting]] took [[Iowa's 5th congressional district|5th District]] [[incumbent]] and fellow Republican [[Tom Latham]] out of the district, King ran in a four-way Republican [[primary election|primary]] for the seat. His most prominent opponents were fellow state senator John Redwine and [[Iowa House of Representatives|State House]] Speaker Brent Siegrest. Since the 5th is the most Republican district in Iowa and one of the most Republican in the nation, it was generally thought that the winner of the primary would have a fairly easy time winning the general election in November.


King won 30% of the vote, five points short of the 35 percent required by Iowa law to be named the outright winner, so under Iowa law, a [[nominating convention]] was required. King won on the fourth ballot. He won handily in the fall, and won re-election just as easily in 2004.
The SCxxxx range of Geode devices are a single-chip version, comparable to the [[Silicon Integrated Systems|SiS]] 552 or [[VIA CoreFusion]], which integrate the CPU, memory controller, graphics and I/O devices into one package. Single processor boards based on these processors are manufactured by [[ThinCan|Artec Group]], [[PC Engines]] ([[Wireless Router Application Platform|WRAP]]) and [[Soekris]].


In 2006, King was endorsed by the ''[[Omaha World Herald]]'', which covers a large part of his congressional district. But the ''[[Des Moines Register]]'' , which had endorsed King for re-election in 2004, endorsed his [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] opponent, Joyce Schulte, saying that "King has been an embarrassment to Iowa" and "This space won't allow listing all his outrageous remarks and positions." <ref>[http://commoniowan.blogspot.com/2006/10/des-moines-register-comes-out-with.html ''Des Moines Register'' election endorsements, October 2006]</ref> King won re-election in the [[United States general election, 2006|2006 general election]] against Democrat Schulte and Independent candidates Roy Nielsen and Cheryl Broderson with 59 percent of the vote. <ref>[http://www.sos.state.ia.us/pdfs/staff/StatewideSummary.pdf "Iowa Statewide Election Summary" (pdf)], November 9, 2006, retrieved November 15, 2006</ref>
These processors are named after [[geode]]s.


In 2008, King had been seen as a possible challenger for [[Tom Harkin]]'s [[US Senate|Senate]] seat, but on [[March 7]], he announced that he would run for a fourth House term. King is opposed by Democrat [[Ron Hubler]].
== National Semiconductor Geode ==
===Geode GXm===


==== Committee Assignments ====
Cyrix [[MediaGX]]m clone. Returns "CyrixInstead" on [[CPUID]].
*Committee on Agriculture
**From 2003 through 2005, $14.7 billion in crop subsidies went to the congressional districts of members on the House Committee on Agriculture, an analysis by the non-partisan Environmental Working Group found. That was 42.4% of the total subsidies. King is reported to have brought $1.15 billion to his District. <ref>Dilanian, Ken, [http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-07-25-farmbill_N.htm#subsidies" Billions go to House panel members' districts"], USA Today. July 26, 2007.</ref>
**Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research
**Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry
**Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry
*Committee on Small Business
**Subcommittee on Finance and Tax
**Subcommittee on Regulations, Healthcare and Trade
*Committee on the Judiciary
**Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law (Ranking Member)
**Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties


=== Political positions and actions ===
* MediaGX-derived core
During the [[110th United States Congress|110th Congress]], King voted with the majority of the Republican Party 90.9% of the time.<ref name=Votes>{{cite web |url=http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/k000362/ |title=Votes Database - Steve King |publisher=''[[Washington Post]]'' |accessdate=2008-10-11}}</ref> King has continuously voted for Iraq War legislation, including funding without stipulations regarding troop withdrawals. In January 2007 he voted with a majority of House Republican against repealing tax cuts to oil companies. In May 2006 he voted to extend the [[Bush tax cuts]]. King voted against imposing a ban on cruel punishment of detainees held by the U.S. military. In May 2005, he voted to establish a free trade zone between the U.S. and [[Central America]].<ref name=Votes/>
* 0.35 µm four layer metal CMOS
* [[MMX (instruction set)|MMX]] instructions
* 3.3 V I/O, 2.9 V core
* 16 Kb write-back unified L1 cache
* PCI controller
* 64-bit SDRAM memory
* CS5530 companion chip (implements sound and video functions)
* VSA architecture
* 1280x1024x8 or 1024x768x16 display


He was the only Representative from Iowa to score 100 percent on the joint Family Research Council Action/Focus on the Family Action Congressional Scorecard in the second session of the 109th Congress. In the [[109th United States Congress]], and again in the 110th Congress, King chairs the Conservative Opportunity Society, an organization founded by [[Newt Gingrich]] and others that laid the groundwork for the Republicans' [[United States House election, 1994|1994 takeover of the House]].{{fact|date=October 2008}}
===Geode GXLV===
[[Image:Geode GXLV233.jpg|right|thumb|180px|Geode GXLV.]]
* MediaGX-derived core
* 0.25 µm four layer metal CMOS
* 3.3 V I/O
* 2.2 V, 2.5 V, 2.9 V core
* 16 kb write-back unified L1 cache
* Fully static design
* 1.0 W @2.2 V/166 MHz, 2.5 W @2.9 V/266 MHz
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===Geode GX1===
=== Controversies ===
==== Post office naming debate ====
[[Image:Geode GX1 233.jpg|thumb|National Semiconductor Geode GX1, 233 MHz]]
In September 2005, King rallied support to reject a motion in the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] to name a post office in [[Berkeley, California]] after the city's long-serving Councilwoman [[Maudelle Shirek]]. After winning the vote 190 for to 215 against, King cited Shirek's affiliation with the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library in Berkeley as his reason to block the motion, claiming, albeit in a different interview, that her past "sets her apart from ... the most consistent of American values." When the proponent of the Post Office's name change, [[Barbara Lee]], claimed that King's "campaign of innuendo and unsubstantiated 'concern' is better suited to [[McCarthyism|the era of Joseph McCarthy]] than today's House of Representatives," King claimed that [[United States history|history]] showed [[Joseph McCarthy|McCarthy]] to be "a hero for America". <ref>Jane Norman, [http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050929/NEWS09/509290403&SearchID=73221925473690 "McCarthy Comment by Steve King Stirs Debate"], ''Des Moines Register,'' September 29, 2005, retrieved January 19, 2006</ref>.
==== Statements about illegal immigration ====
In April 2006, conservative members of Congress proposed strengthening law enforcement against illegal immigration to the United States. When asked if "the US economy simply couldn't function without" the presence of illegal immigrants, King said that he rejected that position "categorically". He said "they", referring to the 77.5 million people between the ages of sixteen and sixty-five in the United States who are not part of the [[workforce]], "could be put to work and we could invent machines to replace the rest."<ref>Robin Lustig, interviewing King on the [[BBC]]'s programme 'The World Tonight' on BBC Radio 4</ref>
King said that "members of Congress that vote for a guest-worker plan ... will be supporting an amnesty plan and they should be branded with the scarlet letter 'A' and pay for that amnesty in the ballot box in [[United States House election, 2006|November]] [elections]".
On April 27, 2006, the ''Des Moines Register'' published an op-ed piece by King regarding the planned May 1 "Day Without an Immigrant" rallies.<ref>[http://www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/ia05_king/col_20060505_bite.html "Biting the Hand That Feeds You"], op-ed by Representative Steve King, ''Des Moines Register'', April 27, 2006, archived on King's House.gov website.</ref> The op-ed read in part:
<blockquote>
"What would that May 1st look like without illegal immigration? There would be no one to smuggle across our southern border the heroin, marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines that plague the United States, reducing the U.S. supply of meth that day by 80%. The lives of 12 U.S. citizens would be saved who otherwise die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day. Another 13 Americans would survive who are otherwise killed each day by uninsured drunk driving illegals. Our hospital emergency rooms would not be flooded with everything from gunshot wounds, to anchor babies, to imported diseases to hangnails, giving American citizens the day off from standing in line behind illegals. Eight American children would not suffer the horror as a victim of a sex crime."
</blockquote>
The editorial received strong reactions, both for and against, in Iowa and across the country.<ref>Jane Norman, [http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060427/NEWS09/604270382/1001/rss01 "King rips on 'illegal invader' event: The National Day Without Immigrants is a farce and an insult, says the Iowa congressman"], ''Des Moines Register'', April 27, 2006</ref>
King has cited an April 2005 GAO report as the source of the statistics in his editorial, but the report says that only 27% of ''federal'' prisoners were "criminal aliens," a category including both legal and illegal aliens. The GAO report includes no illegal alien percentage figures for state prisons and local jails, which together hold the overwhelming majority (92%) of US prisoners.<ref>[http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05337r.pdf "Information on Criminal Aliens Incarcerated in Federal and State Prisons and Local Jails" (pdf), April 7, 2005]</ref> However, the actual percentage of illegal aliens held in state prisons and local jails can be determined by comparing the GAO report's figures for SCAAP federal compensation to states and localities with federal Bureau of Justice Statistics prisoner censuses at the time. <ref> [http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/pjim02.htm "Bureau of Justice Statistics Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear, 2002"]</ref> Such a comparison reveals that the real percentage of illegal aliens being held was less than 4%, far from the 28% claimed by King.


==== Statements about Washington, D.C. ====
* MediaGX-derived core
In June 2006, King stated, "My wife lives here with me, and I can tell you… she’s at far greater risk being a civilian in Washington, D.C., than an average civilian in Iraq." King said that there were 45 violent deaths per 100,000 in Washington, D.C., in 2003 while he calculated that there were 27.51 per 100,000 in Iraq as a whole. <ref>Jane Norman, [http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060703/NEWS09/607030321/1056 "Civilians are safer in Iraq than in D.C., King says"], ''Des Moines Register,'' July 3, 2006, retrieved Jul 14 2006</ref>
* 0.18 µm CMOS
* 200 - 333 MHz
* 1.6 - 2.2 V core
* 16 kB (16 [[kibibyte|KiB]]) L1 cache
* 0.8 W - 1.2 W typical
* [[SDRAM]] memory 111 MHz
* CS5530A companion chip
* 85 Hz VGA refresh rate


==== State Department appropriations ====
National Semiconductor/AMD SC1100 is based on the Cyrix GX1 core and the CS5530 support chip.
On June 21, 2007, King introduced an amendment to the $34 billion State and Foreign Operations bill to prohibit funds from being used by [[Speaker of the House]] [[Nancy Pelosi]] to [[Cuba]], [[Iran]], [[North Korea]], [[Sudan]] or [[Syria]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,285753,00.html |title=Republican Rep. King Doesn't Want Pelosi to Meet With Foreign Leaders Sponsoring Terrorism |date=2007-06-21 |accessdate=2008-10-11 |publisher=Fox News}}</ref> When asked why the measure did not apply to Republican House members who had also made trips to the countries in question, King's spokesman replied that he was unsure whether that had been considered, or why it might not have been.<ref>Greg Sargent, [http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/jun/21/gop_rep_steve_king_introduces_legislation_to_bar_pelosi_trips_to_syria "GOP Congressman Introduces Legislation To Restrict Pelosi Trips To Enemy Countries"], ''TPM Cafe'', June 21, 2007</ref>
{{-}}


==== Remarks about Barack Obama ====
===Geode GX2===
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On March 7, 2008, during his press engagements to announce his reelection campaign, King made disparaging remarks about Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate [[Barack Obama]] and his middle name, saying: "I will tell you that, if he is elected president, then the radical Islamists, the al-Qaida, the radical Islamists and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11 because they will declare victory in this War on Terror."
Announced by National Semiconductor Corporation October, 2001 at Microprocessor Forum. First demonstration at [[COMPUTEX]] Taiwan, June, 2002.

King also argued that Obama's middle name should be considered relevant in the presidential election: "Additionally, his middle name (Hussein) does matter," King said. "It matters because they read a meaning into that in the rest of the world. That has a special meaning to them. They will be dancing in the streets because of his middle name. They will be dancing in the streets because of who his father was...."<ref>[http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/08/politics/main3919500.shtml GOP Rep.: Al Qaeda Would Cheer Obama Win, Iowa Rep. Says Terrorists Would "Dance In The Streets" And Declare Victory In War On Terror - CBS News<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* 0.15 µm process technology
* [[MMX (instruction set)|MMX]] and [[3DNow!]] instructions
Then on March 10, King defended his comments to [[The Associated Press]], saying "(Obama will) certainly be viewed as a savior for them.... That's why you will see them supporting him, encouraging him."<ref name=Obama/>
* 16 kB Instruction and 16 kB Data caches
* GeodeLink architecture, 6 [[gigabyte|GB]]/s on-chip bandwidth, up to 2 GB/s memory bandwidth
That day, Obama himself addressed the comments while campaigning in [[Mississippi]]:
* Integrated 64-bit PC133 SDRAM and [[DDR SDRAM|DDR266]] controller
<blockquote>
* Clockrate: 266, 333 and 400 MHz
"I think that Mr. King has it backwards. The fact that the continuation of a presence in Iraq as Senator McCain has suggested is exactly what, I think, will fan the flames of anti-American sentiment and make it more difficult for us to create a long-term and sustainable peace in the world. But I have to say that Mr. King and individuals like him thrive on offensive or controversial statements as a way to get in the papers, so I don't take it too seriously. I would hope Senator McCain would want to distance himself from that kind of inflammatory and offensive remarks."
* 3 PCI masters supported
</blockquote>
* 1600x1200x24 bit display with video scaling
* CRT DACs and an UMA DSTN/TFT controller.
The McCain campaign disavowed King's comments, saying "John McCain rejects the type of politics that degrades our civics…and obviously that extends to Congressman King's statement."<ref name=Obama>[http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-03-10-king-obama_N.htm Rep. King Defends Comments About Obama - USATODAY.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* Geode CS5535 companion chip

== AMD Geode ==
[[Image:AMD Geode Processor Logo.svg|thumb|AMD Geode logo]]In 2002, AMD introduced the '''Geode GX''' series, which was a re-branding of the National Semiconductor GX2. This was quickly followed by the '''Geode LX''', running up to 667 MHz. LX brought many improvements, such as higher speed DDR, a re-designed instruction pipe, and a more powerful display controller. The upgrade from the CS5535 I/O Companion to the CS5536 brought higher speed USB.

Geode GX and LX processors are typically found in devices such as [[thin clients]] and industrial control systems. However they have come under competitive pressure from [[VIA Technologies|VIA]] on the x86 side, and [[ARM architecture|ARM]] and [[XScale]] taking much of the low-end business.

Because of the relatively poor performance of the GX and LX core design, AMD introduced the '''Geode NX''', which is an embedded version of the highly-successful [[Athlon]] processor, K7. Geode NX uses the '''Thoroughbred''' core and is quite similar to the Athlon XP-M that use this core. The Geode NX includes 256KB of Level 2 cache, and runs fanless at up to 1 GHz in the NX1500@6W version. The NX2001 part runs at 1.8 GHz, the NX1750 part runs at 1.4 GHz, and the NX1250 runs at 667 MHz.

The Geode NX, with its strong FPU, is particularly suited for embedded devices with graphical performance requirements, such as information kiosks and [[casino]] gaming machines, such as video slots.

However, it was reported that the specific design team for Geode processors in [[Longmont, Colorado]] has been closed, and 75 employees are being relocated to the new development facility in [[Fort Collins, Colorado]]. It is expected that the Geode line of processors will be updated less frequently due to the closure of the Geode design center <ref>[http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20060718220033.html X-Bit Labs report], retrieved July 19, 2007</ref>.

===Geode GX===
#Geode GX 466@0.9 W: clock speed: 333 MHz
#Geode GX 500@1.0 W: clock speed: 366 MHz
#Geode GX 533@1.1 W: clock speed: 400 MHz

===Geode LX===
[[Image:AMD Geode LX 800 CPU.jpg|thumb|AMD Geode LX 800 (500MHz) CPU.]]
#LX 700@0.8 W: clock speed: 433 MHz, with power consumption: 1.3 watts. ([[Thermal Design Power|TDP]] 3.1 W)
#LX 800@0.9 W: clock speed: 500 MHz, with power consumption: 1.8 watts. ([[Thermal Design Power|TDP]] 3.6 W)
#LX 900@1.5 W: clock speed: 600 MHz, with power consumption: 2.6 watts. ([[Thermal Design Power|TDP]] 5.1 W)

Features:
* Low power.
* Full x86 compatibility.
* Processor functional blocks:
** CPU Core
** GeodeLink Control Processor
** GeodeLink Interface Units
** GeodeLink Memory Controller
** Graphics Processor
** Display Controller
** Video Processor
** Video Input Port
** GeodeLink PCI Bridge
** Security Block
*** 128-Bit [[Advanced Encryption Standard]] (AES) - (CBC/ECB)
*** True Random Number Generator

Specification:
* Processor frequency up to 600 MHz (LX900), 500 MHz (LX800) and 433 MHz (LX700).
* Power management: ACPI, lower power, wakeup on SMI/INTR.
* 64K Instruction / 64K Data L1 cache and 128K L2 cache
* Split Instruction/Data cache/[[Translation Lookaside Buffer|TLB]].
* DDR Memory 400 MHz (LX 800), 333 MHz (LX 700)
* Integrated FPU with [[MMX (instruction set)|MMX]] and [[3DNow!]]
* 9 GB/s internal GeodeLink Interface Unit (GLIU)
* Simultaneous, high-res CRT and TFT (High and standard definition). VESA 1.1 and 2.0 VIP/VDA support
* Manufactured at a 0.13 micrometre process
* 481-terminal PBGA (Plastic Ball Grid Array)
* GeodeLink active hardware power management

===Geode NX===
#NX 1250@6W: Clock speed: 667 MHz, power consumption: 9 watts (1.1 volts core operating voltage).
#NX 1500@6W: Clock speed: 1 GHz, power consumption: 9 watts (1.0 volts core operating voltage).
#NX 1750@14W: Clock speed: 1.4 GHz, power consumption: 25 watts (1.25 volts core operating voltage).

Features:
* 7th generation core (based on Mobile [[Athlon#Mobile Athlon XP|Athlon XP-M]]).
* Power management: AMD PowerNow!, ACPI 1.0b and ACPI 2.0.
* 128 KB L1 cache.
* 256 KB L2 cache with hardware data prefetch
* 133 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB)
* 3DNow!, MMX and SSE instruction sets
* 0.13 µm (130 nm) fabrication process
* Pin compatibility between all NX family processors.
* OS support: Linux, Windows CE, MS Windows XP.
* Compatible with [[Socket A]] motherboards

==== Geode NX 2001 ====
In 2007, there was a ''Geode NX 2001'' model on sale, which in fact was a relabelled [[List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors#Athlon XP .22Thoroughbred A.2FB.22 .28Model 8.2C 130 nm.29|Athlon XP 2200+ Thoroughbred]]. The processors, with part numbers AANXA2001FKC3G or ANXA2001FKC3D, their specifications are 1.8 GHz clock speed, and 1.65 volt core operating voltage, the power consumption is not specified. There are no official references to this processor except officials explaining that the batch of CPUs were "being shipped to specific customers", though it is clear it has no relation with the other Geode NX CPUs other than sharing the same CPU socket ([[Socket A]]). <ref>[http://fab51.com/mobile/tbred/geode_nx2001-e.html Fab51.com information], retrieved January 22, 2008</ref>

==Chipsets for Geode==

#AMD Geode CS5530A Southbridge for Geode GX1.
#AMD Geode CS5535 Southbridge for Geode GX and Geode LX (USB 1.1). Integrates four USB ports, one ATA-66 UDMA controller, one Infrared communication port, one [[AC97]] controller, one [[System Management Bus|SMBUS]] controller, one [[Low Pin Count|LPC]] port, as well as GPIO, Power Management, and legacy functional blocks.
#AMD Geode CS5536 Southbridge for Geode GX and Geode LX (USB 2.0). Power consumption: 1.9 W (433 MHz) and 2.4 W (500 MHz). This chipset is also used on PowerPC board (Amy'05).
#Geode NX processors are "100 percent socket and chipset compatible" with AMD's [[Socket A]] Athlon XP processors: SIS741CX Northbridge and SIS 964 Southbridge, VIA KM400 Northbridge and VIA VT8235 Southbridge, VIA KN400A Northbridge and VIA VT8237R Southbridge.

== See also ==
*[[ALIX]]
*[[Cyrix Cx5x86]]
*[[Wireless Router Application Platform|WRAP]]

*[[3Com Audrey]]
*[[Koolu]]
*[[Linutop]]
*[[Netbook]]
*[[MediaGX]]
*[[Soekris]]
*[[Sony eVilla]]
*[[ThinCan]]
*[[Virgin Webplayer]]

*[[PC/104]]
*[[Intel Atom]]


==References==
==References==
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{{Reflist}}

==External links==
==External links==
{{Commons|Steve King}}
*[http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/ProductInformation/0,,50_2330_9863,00.html?redir=CSPR07 AMD pages for Geode]
*[http://www.house.gov/steveking/ U.S. Congressman Steve King] '''official House site'''
*[http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/ProductInformation/0,,50_2330_9863_13022,00.html AMD Geode LX800 product information]
*[http://www.kingforcongress.com/ King for Congress] '''official campaign site'''
*[http://www.amd.com/files/connectivitysolutions/geode/geode_lx/33234d_lx_ds.pdf AMD Geode LX Processors Data Book]
*{{CongBio|k000362}}
*[http://www.national.com/news/item/0,1735,412,00.html National Semiconductor press release: Cyrix -> VIA, MediaGX -> Geode]
*[http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/can_detail/H2IA05072 Federal Election Commission — Steven A Kingham] campaign finance reports and data
*[http://www.national.com/appinfo/solutions/ National Semiconductor press release: Geode sold to AMD]
*[http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Steve_King.htm On the Issues — Steve King] issue positions and quotes
*[http://www.cpu-info.com/index2.php?mainid=html/cpu/CxMGX.php CPU-INFO: Cyrix MediaGX, indepth processor history]
*[http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allsummary.asp?CID=N00025237 OpenSecrets.org — Steven A. King] campaign contributions
*[http://fab51.com/mobile/tbred/geode_nx-e12.html Voltage and P State information for Geode NX]
*[http://www.quixant.co.uk/hardware.php Quixant QX-10 Geode NX Motherboard for gaming applications]
*[http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=BS034389 Project Vote Smart — Representative Steve A. King (IA)] profile
*[http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/k000362/ Washington Post — Congress Votes Database: Steve King] voting record
*[http://www.soekris.com/ Soekris Engineering] sells embedded boards with Geode processors
*[http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12300.html]Politico
*[http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm PC Engines ALIX] another embedded board with Geode LX processor
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*[http://www.compulab.co.il/iglx/html/iglx-cm-datasheet.htm CM-iGLX ] the smallest Computer On Module based on Geode LX
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*[http://www.fit-pc.com Fit-PC] full-featured end-user product based on the CM-iGLX PC-on-module above
{{USRepSuccessionBox
*[http://www.artecgroup.com Artec Group ] manufactures products based on the Geode such as the [[ThinCan]].
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*[http://troikang.com/spec.html Troika NG ] PowerPC board using CS5536.
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*[http://www.technexion.com Technexion] manufactures a Geode LX based motherboard ([http://www.technexion.com/products/little_boards/tim-3900-lx.html TIM-3900-LX])
|before=[[Tom Latham]]

|years=2003–Present
===Linux on Geode ===
|after=Incumbent}}
*[http://www.larwe.com/technical/geode_linux.html Installing Linux on Geode-based Single-Board Computers]
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Revision as of 13:21, 11 October 2008

For other people named Steve King, see Stephen King (disambiguation).

Steve King
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Iowa's 5th district
Assumed office
January 3, 2003
Preceded byTom Latham
Personal details
Political partyRepublican
SpouseMarilyn King
ResidenceKiron, Iowa
Alma materHS diploma
Occupationconstruction contractor

Steven Arnold "Steve" King (born May 28, 1949) is an American politician who is a member of the Republican Party representing the 5th District of Iowa in the United States House of Representatives since 2003.

Early life and career

King is a lifelong resident of northwestern Iowa. He was born on May 28, 1949 in Storm Lake, but currently calls Kiron home. He attended Northwest Missouri State University from 1967 to 1968. In 1975 he founded King Construction Company. He ran for an open seat in the Iowa State Senate in 1996 and won. He was reelected in 2000.

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

In 2002, after redistricting took 5th District incumbent and fellow Republican Tom Latham out of the district, King ran in a four-way Republican primary for the seat. His most prominent opponents were fellow state senator John Redwine and State House Speaker Brent Siegrest. Since the 5th is the most Republican district in Iowa and one of the most Republican in the nation, it was generally thought that the winner of the primary would have a fairly easy time winning the general election in November.

King won 30% of the vote, five points short of the 35 percent required by Iowa law to be named the outright winner, so under Iowa law, a nominating convention was required. King won on the fourth ballot. He won handily in the fall, and won re-election just as easily in 2004.

In 2006, King was endorsed by the Omaha World Herald, which covers a large part of his congressional district. But the Des Moines Register , which had endorsed King for re-election in 2004, endorsed his Democratic opponent, Joyce Schulte, saying that "King has been an embarrassment to Iowa" and "This space won't allow listing all his outrageous remarks and positions." [1] King won re-election in the 2006 general election against Democrat Schulte and Independent candidates Roy Nielsen and Cheryl Broderson with 59 percent of the vote. [2]

In 2008, King had been seen as a possible challenger for Tom Harkin's Senate seat, but on March 7, he announced that he would run for a fourth House term. King is opposed by Democrat Ron Hubler.

Committee Assignments

  • Committee on Agriculture
    • From 2003 through 2005, $14.7 billion in crop subsidies went to the congressional districts of members on the House Committee on Agriculture, an analysis by the non-partisan Environmental Working Group found. That was 42.4% of the total subsidies. King is reported to have brought $1.15 billion to his District. [3]
    • Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research
    • Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry
    • Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry
  • Committee on Small Business
    • Subcommittee on Finance and Tax
    • Subcommittee on Regulations, Healthcare and Trade
  • Committee on the Judiciary
    • Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law (Ranking Member)
    • Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties

Political positions and actions

During the 110th Congress, King voted with the majority of the Republican Party 90.9% of the time.[4] King has continuously voted for Iraq War legislation, including funding without stipulations regarding troop withdrawals. In January 2007 he voted with a majority of House Republican against repealing tax cuts to oil companies. In May 2006 he voted to extend the Bush tax cuts. King voted against imposing a ban on cruel punishment of detainees held by the U.S. military. In May 2005, he voted to establish a free trade zone between the U.S. and Central America.[4]

He was the only Representative from Iowa to score 100 percent on the joint Family Research Council Action/Focus on the Family Action Congressional Scorecard in the second session of the 109th Congress. In the 109th United States Congress, and again in the 110th Congress, King chairs the Conservative Opportunity Society, an organization founded by Newt Gingrich and others that laid the groundwork for the Republicans' 1994 takeover of the House.[citation needed]

Controversies

Post office naming debate

In September 2005, King rallied support to reject a motion in the House of Representatives to name a post office in Berkeley, California after the city's long-serving Councilwoman Maudelle Shirek. After winning the vote 190 for to 215 against, King cited Shirek's affiliation with the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library in Berkeley as his reason to block the motion, claiming, albeit in a different interview, that her past "sets her apart from ... the most consistent of American values." When the proponent of the Post Office's name change, Barbara Lee, claimed that King's "campaign of innuendo and unsubstantiated 'concern' is better suited to the era of Joseph McCarthy than today's House of Representatives," King claimed that history showed McCarthy to be "a hero for America". [5].

Statements about illegal immigration

In April 2006, conservative members of Congress proposed strengthening law enforcement against illegal immigration to the United States. When asked if "the US economy simply couldn't function without" the presence of illegal immigrants, King said that he rejected that position "categorically". He said "they", referring to the 77.5 million people between the ages of sixteen and sixty-five in the United States who are not part of the workforce, "could be put to work and we could invent machines to replace the rest."[6]

King said that "members of Congress that vote for a guest-worker plan ... will be supporting an amnesty plan and they should be branded with the scarlet letter 'A' and pay for that amnesty in the ballot box in November [elections]".

On April 27, 2006, the Des Moines Register published an op-ed piece by King regarding the planned May 1 "Day Without an Immigrant" rallies.[7] The op-ed read in part:

"What would that May 1st look like without illegal immigration? There would be no one to smuggle across our southern border the heroin, marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines that plague the United States, reducing the U.S. supply of meth that day by 80%. The lives of 12 U.S. citizens would be saved who otherwise die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day. Another 13 Americans would survive who are otherwise killed each day by uninsured drunk driving illegals. Our hospital emergency rooms would not be flooded with everything from gunshot wounds, to anchor babies, to imported diseases to hangnails, giving American citizens the day off from standing in line behind illegals. Eight American children would not suffer the horror as a victim of a sex crime."

The editorial received strong reactions, both for and against, in Iowa and across the country.[8]

King has cited an April 2005 GAO report as the source of the statistics in his editorial, but the report says that only 27% of federal prisoners were "criminal aliens," a category including both legal and illegal aliens. The GAO report includes no illegal alien percentage figures for state prisons and local jails, which together hold the overwhelming majority (92%) of US prisoners.[9] However, the actual percentage of illegal aliens held in state prisons and local jails can be determined by comparing the GAO report's figures for SCAAP federal compensation to states and localities with federal Bureau of Justice Statistics prisoner censuses at the time. [10] Such a comparison reveals that the real percentage of illegal aliens being held was less than 4%, far from the 28% claimed by King.

Statements about Washington, D.C.

In June 2006, King stated, "My wife lives here with me, and I can tell you… she’s at far greater risk being a civilian in Washington, D.C., than an average civilian in Iraq." King said that there were 45 violent deaths per 100,000 in Washington, D.C., in 2003 while he calculated that there were 27.51 per 100,000 in Iraq as a whole. [11]

State Department appropriations

On June 21, 2007, King introduced an amendment to the $34 billion State and Foreign Operations bill to prohibit funds from being used by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan or Syria.[12] When asked why the measure did not apply to Republican House members who had also made trips to the countries in question, King's spokesman replied that he was unsure whether that had been considered, or why it might not have been.[13]

Remarks about Barack Obama

On March 7, 2008, during his press engagements to announce his reelection campaign, King made disparaging remarks about Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama and his middle name, saying: "I will tell you that, if he is elected president, then the radical Islamists, the al-Qaida, the radical Islamists and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11 because they will declare victory in this War on Terror."

King also argued that Obama's middle name should be considered relevant in the presidential election: "Additionally, his middle name (Hussein) does matter," King said. "It matters because they read a meaning into that in the rest of the world. That has a special meaning to them. They will be dancing in the streets because of his middle name. They will be dancing in the streets because of who his father was...."[14]

Then on March 10, King defended his comments to The Associated Press, saying "(Obama will) certainly be viewed as a savior for them.... That's why you will see them supporting him, encouraging him."[15]

That day, Obama himself addressed the comments while campaigning in Mississippi:

"I think that Mr. King has it backwards. The fact that the continuation of a presence in Iraq as Senator McCain has suggested is exactly what, I think, will fan the flames of anti-American sentiment and make it more difficult for us to create a long-term and sustainable peace in the world. But I have to say that Mr. King and individuals like him thrive on offensive or controversial statements as a way to get in the papers, so I don't take it too seriously. I would hope Senator McCain would want to distance himself from that kind of inflammatory and offensive remarks."

The McCain campaign disavowed King's comments, saying "John McCain rejects the type of politics that degrades our civics…and obviously that extends to Congressman King's statement."[15]

References

  1. ^ Des Moines Register election endorsements, October 2006
  2. ^ "Iowa Statewide Election Summary" (pdf), November 9, 2006, retrieved November 15, 2006
  3. ^ Dilanian, Ken, " Billions go to House panel members' districts", USA Today. July 26, 2007.
  4. ^ a b "Votes Database - Steve King". Washington Post. Retrieved 2008-10-11. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. ^ Jane Norman, "McCarthy Comment by Steve King Stirs Debate", Des Moines Register, September 29, 2005, retrieved January 19, 2006
  6. ^ Robin Lustig, interviewing King on the BBC's programme 'The World Tonight' on BBC Radio 4
  7. ^ "Biting the Hand That Feeds You", op-ed by Representative Steve King, Des Moines Register, April 27, 2006, archived on King's House.gov website.
  8. ^ Jane Norman, "King rips on 'illegal invader' event: The National Day Without Immigrants is a farce and an insult, says the Iowa congressman", Des Moines Register, April 27, 2006
  9. ^ "Information on Criminal Aliens Incarcerated in Federal and State Prisons and Local Jails" (pdf), April 7, 2005
  10. ^ "Bureau of Justice Statistics Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear, 2002"
  11. ^ Jane Norman, "Civilians are safer in Iraq than in D.C., King says", Des Moines Register, July 3, 2006, retrieved Jul 14 2006
  12. ^ "Republican Rep. King Doesn't Want Pelosi to Meet With Foreign Leaders Sponsoring Terrorism". Fox News. 2007-06-21. Retrieved 2008-10-11.
  13. ^ Greg Sargent, "GOP Congressman Introduces Legislation To Restrict Pelosi Trips To Enemy Countries", TPM Cafe, June 21, 2007
  14. ^ GOP Rep.: Al Qaeda Would Cheer Obama Win, Iowa Rep. Says Terrorists Would "Dance In The Streets" And Declare Victory In War On Terror - CBS News
  15. ^ a b Rep. King Defends Comments About Obama - USATODAY.com

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