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Insyde Software Gaining Mobile Market Firmware Leadership
Widespread Acceptance from Major Mobile Computer Manufacturers Shipping
Intel® GM45 and PM45 Express Chipsets
WESTBOROUGH, MA & TAIPEI, TAIWAN, AUGUST 12, 2008 - Insyde Software, a leading provider of UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) based firmware, BIOS, and engineering services, today announced its InsydeH2O™„§ UEFI firmware product supporting the Intel® CoreTM2 Duo processors and Intel® GM45 and PM45 Express chipsets (formerly codenamed Montevina) is gaining a leadership position within the portable notebook market.
Evidence of its widespread adoption is confirmed by the growing number of OEMs and ODMs who are currently shipping the Montevina platform with InsydeH2O™ UEFI firmware. InsydeH2O™ will ship on dozens of models within the Acer Aspire and Travelmate series, Compaq Presario and HP Pavilion series, Toshiba Satellite series, LG XNote Series, Lenovo IdeaPad series, Sony VAIO series models and many more.
These recent notebook design wins add to the tens of millions of units of InsydeH2O™ UEFI firmware already shipping by Insyde Software's customers across all computing platform segments including mobile, server, desktop and embedded.
"Insyde Software's customers are the world leaders in delivering innovative mobile computing platforms," said Jonathan Joseph, Executive Vice President of Insyde Software. "The growing number of top tier OEMs and ODMs who are shipping these platforms using InsydeH2O™ is evidence that our UEFI Framework firmware product is being recognized as the leader in next-generation firmware solutions."
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processors with the Mobile Intel® PM45 or GM45 Express chipsets offer a combination that provides excellent processor and graphics performance, storage speed and reliability. The platform also offers the option of integrated Wi-Fi and WiMAX wireless technologies for greater wireless broadband access. Other leading system makers who are also taking advantage of InsydeH2O on this platform include Compal, Inventec, Amtek, Quanta, Vestel and Wistron.
About Insyde Software
Insyde Software (www.insydesw.com) is a leading global provider of BIOS, UEFI-based firmware and engineering services for companies in the desktop, mobile, server and embedded computing industries. Founded in 1998, the company is publicly held (GTSM: 6231) and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan with U.S. offices in Westborough, MA and Beaverton, OR. The companyˇ¦s customers include among many others Acer, Bull, Compal, Fujitsu, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Inventec, Lenovo, Malata, NEC, Quanta, SONY, Toshiba, Wistron and Unisys.
Insyde and InsydeH2O are trademarks of Insyde Software. Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Other company and product names mentioned herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
Company Contact
Insyde Software - US Nancy Baptiste +1-508-599-3999
nancy.baptiste@insydesw.com
Insyde Software - Taiwan Lorna Tsao
886-2-2506-1289
lorna.tsao@insydesw.com
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