AMD/ATI
Firmware Development Partner for AMD/ATI Platforms

About AMD

On October 25, 2006, AMD and ATI joined forces in a transaction that combines AMD¡¦s technology leadership in microprocessors with ATI¡¦s strengths in graphics, chipsets and consumer electronics. The result is a processing powerhouse: a new competitor, better equipped to drive growth, innovation and choice for its customers in commercial and mobile computing segments and in rapidly-growing consumer electronics segments. AMD is available online at www.amd.com.

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Intel Corporation
EFI Framework Partner / Intel Capital Portfolio Company

About Intel

Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking, and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com.

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ITE
Firmware Development Partner for ITE Platforms

About ITE

ITE Tech. Inc. is a professional fabless IC design house. ITE is headquartered in Science Industrial Park, Hsinchu,Taiwan and has sales office in Taipei with 4 product lines as PC, Notebook, MultiMedia and LCD. Among the 190 employees that ITE owns, over 160 professionals are combined in force to dedicate to the IC design, system S/W and H/W development, integration, and sales/marketing. For further information, please link to www.iteusa.com.

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Microsoft Corporation
Member of the Microsoft Windows Embedded Partner Program

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services, and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software -- any time, any place, and on any device. Additional information about Microsoft is available at www.microsoft.com.

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MontaVista Software
Member of the MontaVista Partner Program

About MontaVista

MontaVista Software is a leading global supplier of systems software for intelligent connected devices and associated infrastructure. MontaVista powers the embedded revolution by providing GNU/Linux-based open-source software solutions. Founded in 1999 by real-time operating system (RTOS) pioneer James Ready, MontaVista offers a family of products under the MontaVista® Linux® umbrella that address broad-based software developer needs encompassing applications ranging from communications infrastructure to consumer electronics. Multiple editions of MontaVista® Linux® are available ?including Professional, Consumer Electronics, and Carrier Grade ?along with complementary technology products providing powerful Java and graphics development capabilities.

Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, in Sunnyvale, Calif., MontaVista Software is a privately held company funded by leading investors such as Alloy Ventures, US Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, WR Hambrecht + Co., IBM, Intel Capital, Sony, Panasonic (Matsushita), Toshiba America, and Yamaha Corporation. For more information about MontaVista Software, please visit www.mvista.com.

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Nvidia Corporation
Alliance Partner for Firmware/BIOS Support

About Nvidia

Founded in 1993, NVIDIA Corporation is the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies. The Company createds innovative, industry-changing products for computing, consumer electronics,and mobile devices. The product families are transforming visually rich applications such as video games,film production, broadcasting, industrial design, space exploration, and medical imaging. More information and Nvidia can be found at www.nvidia.com/page/home.html.

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Renesas
Firmware Development Partner for Renesas Platform

About Renesas

Renesas offers a full lineup of microcontrollers, memories, Standard ICs, application specific ICs and discrete semiconductors based on high-level R&D, and technologies covering design, applications, production and processes. www.renesas.com.

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Silicon Integrated Corp.(SiS)
Alliance Partner for Firmware/BIOS Support

About SiS

Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. is a worldwide leader in the development, manufacturing and marketing of leading-edge logic products, including core logic, connectivity, and information appliance. The company was founded in 1987 in the Hsin-chu Science Park in Taiwan. Linking the worldwide market through branch offices located in Santa Clara, Beijing, Suzhou, Hong Kong, and Taipei. For more information, please visit us at www.sis.com

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SMSC
Firmware Development Partner for SMSC Platform

About SMSC

SMSC is a global supplier of semiconductor solutions that distribute video, sound, photos and data in the home, automobile, office and factory. The company is headquartered in Hauppauge, New York with operations in North America, Asia and Europe. Engineering design centers are located in Arizona, New York, Texas and Karlsruhe, Germany. Please visit www.smsc.comfor more detailed information.

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Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. (SST)
Alliance Partner for Firmware/Software Support

About SST

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, SST designs, manufactures and markets a diversified range of memory and non-memory products for high volume applications in the digital consumer, networking, wireless communications and Internet computing markets. Leveraging its proprietary, patented SuperFlash technology, SST is a leading provider of nonvolatile memory solutions with product families that include various densities of high functionality flash memory components and flash mass storage products. The Company also offers its SuperFlash technology for embedded applications through its broad network of world-class manufacturing partners and technology licensees, including TSMC, which offers it under its trademark Emb-FLASH. SST's non-memory products include NAND controller-based products, smart card ICs, flash microcontroller and radio frequency ICs and modules. Further information on SST can be found on the company's Web site at http://www.sst.com.

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Transmeta Corporation
Alliance Partner for Firmware/BIOS Support

About Transmeta

Transmeta Corporation develops and sells software-based microprocessors and develops additional hardware, software, and system technologies that enable manufacturers to build highly efficient computing systems characterized by low power consumption, reduced heat dissipation, and the high performance required to run standard x86 compatible programs. We originally developed our family of Crusoe microprocessors for lightweight notebook computers and other mobile computing devices, but we have developed and are continuing to develop microprocessors suitable for a variety of existing and emerging end markets in which x86 program compatibility and energy and thermal efficiency are desirable. To learn more about Transmeta, visit www.transmeta.com.

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VIA Technologies, Inc.
Alliance Partner for Firmware/BIOS Support

About VIA Technologies

VIA Technologies, Inc. is a leading innovator and developer of PC core logic chipsets, microprocessors, and multimedia, networking and communications chips. VIA delivers value to the PC industry by designing, marketing, and selling high-performance VIA Apollo core logic chipsets for the full range of PC platforms, and cost-effective VIA C3™ processors for Value PCs and Internet Appliances, as well as developing complete solutions for the PC platform through its VPSD Business Unit. Its customers include the world's top OEMs, mainboard manufacturers, and system integrators. VIA is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, at the center of the Greater China high-tech manufacturing engine, and has branch offices in the US, China, and Europe. The company is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE2388), and achieved annual revenues of nearly US$1 billion in 2001. Additional information can be found at www.via.com.tw.

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Winbond
Firmware Development Partner for Winbond Platform

About Winbond

Winbond Electronics Corporation was established in 1987 in the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park, Taiwan. The company is known for developing products under its own brand name and strives to aim at a broad range of product lines to meet the demands of the development of the information industry and satisfy the customers' needs. Please visit www.winbond.com for more information.

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