Insyde Software Firmware Shipping on Vestel (Model: Rhino Series) Notebook
InsydeH2O™ with International Branded PCs on Intel® "Santa Rosa" Platform
TAIPEI, TAIWAN and HILLSBORO, OR, August 2nd, 2007 - Insyde Software, a leading provider of UEFI-based firmware, BIOS, and engineering services, today announced that its InsydeH2O™ product is shipping on Vestel (NB VESTEL Rhino 154SRG-T71-ZD5P) with their Mobile Intel® GM965 Express (Santa Rosa) notebook.
Insyde Software and Vestel have enjoyed a longstanding working relationship including collaboration on the Napa platform to today's Santa Rosa platform. With InsydeH2O™ (Hardware-2-Operating System), Vestel's mobile development teams will realize improved development efficiencies including: easier hardware validation, lower costs to support new hardware designs, and accelerated system debugging.
"InsydeH2O's compatibility and usage on the newly announced Santa Rosa Platform from Intel allows us to design and validate our products easier," said Hayrettin Celikhisar, General Manager of Vestel Digital.
¡§Insyde has partnered with Vestel from Napa to the current Santa Rosa platform development.¡¨ said Jeremy Wang, Chairman of Insyde Software. ¡§We observed that Vestel was successfully using InsydeH2O™ to canal their R&D team to the new generation techniques with rich experience. ¡§
InsydeH2O™ firmware solution is the modern BIOS replacement technology being used on server, desktop, mobile and embedded systems. The more modern, next-generation InsydeH2O™ UEFI Framework solution enables ODMs and OEMs to improve efficiency, validate hardware, lower costs to support new hardware designs, and speed up system debugging. Its modularity allows faster migration from platform to platform with less engineering resources and provides development flexibility because work can be done in parallel.
About InsydeH2O
InsydeH2O “Hardware-2-Operating System” firmware solution is a complete, production-ready implementation of the Intel Platform Innovation Framework for EFI ( “the Framework” ) and represents the next-generation of UEFI-capable BIOS technology being used on Server, Desktop, Mobile and Embedded systems.
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 Boston, MA and Hillsboro, OR. The company¡¦s customers include Acer, Compal, Fujitsu, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lenovo, MiTAC, NEC, Quanta, Toshiba, Vestel, ViewSonic, Wistron and Wyse.
Insyde and InsydeH2O are trademarks of Insyde Software. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.