VIA TECHNOLOGIES STANDARDIZES ON BIOS SOFTWARE FROM PHOENIX TECHNOLOGIES.Phoenix Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:PTEC PTEC Pinellas Technical Education Centers (Clearwater, FL) PTEC Pharmacy Technician Educators Council PTEC Psychiatric Technician PTEC Plastics Technical Evaluation Center PTEC Page Table Edit Control ), a provider of device-enabling and management software products for connected digital devices, recently announced that it has signed a broad licensing agreement with VIA Technologies (VIA) to help VIA advance its goal of becoming the premier provider of PC motherboard  This article or section may be confusing or unclear for some readers.Please [improve the article] or discuss this issue on the talk page. solutions using VIA microprocessors This page lists x86-compliant microprocessors sold by Via Technologies, grouped by technical merits (cores within same group have much in common). Cyrix design (Cyrix III)
Marketing and chipsets. The company is licensing Phoenix BIOS A PC BIOS from Phoenix Technologies Ltd., Milpitas, CA (www.phoenix.com). Phoenix was the first company to successfully mass produce the ROM BIOS for the PC, which made the PC industry possible. The BIOS enabled software designed for the IBM PC to run in non-IBM PCs. software for its entire new line of Pentium 4 class P4XBhas motherboard products. VIA, which was founded in 1987, is a leader in the worldwide core logic chipset A group of chips designed to work as a unit to perform a function. For example, a modem chipset contains all the primary circuits for transmitting and receiving. A PC chipset provides the electronic interfaces between all subsystems (see PC chipset for illustration). and microprocessor markets and provides products for a wide range of customer applications including desktop, notebook, and network computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. . It is standardizing its new line of Intel Pentium 4 processor based motherboard products on Phoenix software and will target the products at middle to high-end markets and customers. "As we launch our new line of branded VIA motherboards, we are excited to be a strategic partner with Phoenix Technologies to help us advance our business in the Pentium 4 class marketplace," said Richard Brown Richard Brown can refer to:
"This agreement with such a distinguished provider of chipsets, processors, and PC platform solutions as VIA demonstrates our continued commitment to the important Taiwan motherboard market," said Susan L. Kennedy, vice president of FirstWare Product Marketing, Phoenix Technologies. "Our new partnership gives VIA a competitive advantage versus others in the motherboard marketplace by allowing them to focus on designing, developing, and delivering world-class products while counting on Phoenix to deliver the latest system software features for their customers." |
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