InsydeH2O® Shipping on Newly Released Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air
Compelling New Ultrabook Leverages Latest UEFI Firmware Technology and Delivers an Affordable Combination of Performance and Portability
INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM – SAN FRANCISCO, CA – August 16, 2016– Insyde® Software, a leading provider of UEFI BIOS and systems management software, today announced that its flagship product InsydeH2O is now shipping on the new Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air featuring the 6th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor.
Xiaomi is one of China’s top tier smartphone manufacturers. The Mi Notebook Air, announced earlier this month and available now in China, has garnered industry attention with its unique combination of performance, portability and pricing. The Mi Notebook Air delivers high-end features and performance allowing users to perform tasks from productivity to PC gaming, all the while packaged into a thin and light Ultrabook form factor at an affordable price point.
As the BIOS partner for the Mi Notebook Air, Insyde Software developed innovative features which help differentiate Xiaomi’s Ultrabook from many others on the market, including a PCIe SSD, DDR4 memory, Hybrid Graphics via the NVIDIA® 940MX, USB Type-C and improved battery life.
“Our work with Xiaomi in enabling the latest computing technologies for the Mi Notebook Air is just the latest example of Insyde Software being chosen by customers for our cutting-edge support and technology,” said Aven Chuang, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Personal Computing Group at Insyde Software. “Our customers value our ability to quickly enable and deploy UEFI BIOS and special features for their designs,” added Chuang.
As a leading provider of UEFI BIOS, Insyde supports all of the key features and technologies required on the 6th Generation Intel Core Processor “Codenamed: Skylake,” including UEFI Secure Boot, Intel Boot Guard, Intel PTT (fTPM), Intel AMT/vPro, Intel Thunderbolt™ 3.0, Intel SGX, Microsoft® Connected Standby/Modern Standby, and much more. By leveraging InsydeH2O’s modular architecture, customers have developed custom features that provide countless examples of unique product differentiation.
Visit Insyde Software to see demonstrations of the latest in PC technology at booth #721 during the Intel Developer Forum, August 16-18, 2016 in San Francisco, CA.
About Insyde Software
Insyde Software (www.insyde.com) is a leading worldwide provider of UEFI firmware, systems management solutions, Android software implementations and custom engineering services for companies in the mobile, server, desktop and IoT (Internet-of-Things) computing industries. The company is publicly held (GTSM: 6231) and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan with U.S. headquarters in Westborough, MA. The company’s customers include the world’s leading computing, communications and storage device designers and manufacturers.
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