Taipei, Taiwan, June 13, 2007 — Winbond Electronics Corporation [TSE: 2344, www.winbond.com] introduces a range of new SideShow-enabled concept devices, created using Winbond controllers and prototyped by Ricavision® for Microsoft, wirelessly connected to a PC. The Chatter, a small handheld portable device with thumb keyboard, allows the user to respond to emails and instant messages. The Scribbler, a small device with an electronic "sticky note" function, is easily attached to a kitchen refrigerator or similar appliances. The Reader offers a convenient way to read documents and electronic books, together with all the benefits of SideShow.
Winbond's presence at the 2007 WinHEC show in Taipei is an expression of the company's continued support of the SideShow feature of Windows Vista. Winbond's drive for innovative solutions, exploiting a broad portfolio of in-house technologies, has created a line of new applications based on its advanced controller for SideShow (WPCE521L) and associated firmware. These applications, working with Windows Vista, create new features that greatly enhance the user's “information touch” experience.
SideShow-compatible solutions enable users to interact with Windows Vista using “gadgets”. Winbond’s range of SideShow-enabled devices communicate with the host system through wired USB or a wireless channel, using a wide range of input possibilities. These devices come in various shapes and sizes with displays, offering touch capability, from a tiny 2.5"QVGA up to a full-size SVGA LCM, or new Electronic Paper Display (EPD) with extremely low power consumption. "We leverage Winbond's position as a major supplier of PC components and solutions, and our long experience in working with all the leading OEMs and ODMs, to provide our customers with a portfolio of SideShow-compatible solutions and applications that complement and differentiate their products." said Zeev Heller, Senior Director of Marketing for Winbond, "By working together with Microsoft we were able to define and design these new applications to fully comply with the Windows SideShow concept and exploit all its benefits. Our strategic relations with Microsoft result in new concepts and solutions that benefit our customers".
“The combination of Winbond's controller for SideShow with the Windows SideShow technology adds exciting possibilities for Windows Vista users,” said Dan Polivy, program manager for Windows SideShow at Microsoft Corp. “The Winbond controller for SideShow will help Microsoft develop and demonstrate new SideShow concept solutions.”
About Winbond
Winbond Electronics Corporation, a global company based in Hsinchu, Taiwan, is a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions. Winbond designs, develops, markets and sells IC solutions to the global electronics marketplace. The company’s primary mission is to serve the growing needs of manufacturers of computers, and consumer and communication electronics. Winbond Electronics Corporation has some 5000 employees worldwide with design centers in Hsinchu, Taiwan; Shanghai, China; San Jose, California; Austin, Texas; Japan and Israel. Winbond can be contacted via its corporate homepage at http://www.winbond.com.
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About Ricavision International, Inc.
Ricavision International, Inc., is a leading IT and CE convergence technology company based on the Microsoft solutions. Ricavision is uniquely positioned by having both the Windows Vista green button OEM license and the Windows SideShow ODM license for Windows Vista. Ricavision is well-known industry wide due to its innovative technologies, since it is the one of first companies to develop Home Theater PCs based on Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition. Ricavision is a privately held company incorporated in California.
For more information please visit http://www.ricavision.com, or call 949-540-0124.
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