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Provides Easier Access to Phoenix Design Expertise; Speeds Time to Market for PC Board Manufacturers SHANGHAI, China and MILPITAS, Calif., April 2, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM -- Phoenix Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:PTEC), today announced the availability of the PC industry's first remote BIOS validation lab and test center. Called the Phoenix Remote Debug Station (RDS), this innovative lab is part of Phoenix's ongoing commitment to enabling customer success factors, including time to market and quality assurance through rapid access to the company's world-class design expertise and automated debug methodologies. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070410/SFTU048LOGO) The Phoenix RDS will be demonstrated at the Intel Developer Forum today and tomorrow in the Phoenix Technologies' Booth GE007. The demonstration will be based on an Intel reference board. With the Phoenix RDS, customers can now bring their development boards to any local Phoenix office, where Phoenix BIOS experts will remotely connect to the board and immediately initiate the test and validation process. The RDS will result in significant time savings, allowing customers to reduce overall development costs and improve time to revenue. "Phoenix's ability to remotely diagnose and resolve BIOS issues is an important capability," said Greg Crain, Director of Platform Applications Engineering in the Intel Digital Enterprise Group. "This capability can help accelerate the pace at which our customers deliver PC innovations based on new Intel technology." "The Remote Debug Station is yet another milestone in our quality assurance and automation processes. It is another important example of our commitment to our customers' success and to enabling the innovation chain in today's PC ecosystem," said Dr. Gaurav Banga, CTO and SVP of Engineering at Phoenix Technologies. "Phoenix continues to set the standards for core systems software or BIOS, including the highest available level of testing and validation, all in an automatic fashion that reduces customer frustration with the validation process. Moving forward, we will expand this initiative to provide additional remote tests as well as on-site test/validation for the leading ODMs in the industry." The automated validation and tests currently performed at the RDS include the following and more: -- CPU Tests -- Memory Tests -- POST Tests -- BIOS Flash Tools Tests -- BIOS Boot (CD-ROM, HDD, Floppy, USB, Over LAN) Tests -- Power Management Tests -- WHQL Tests -- UEFI Tests -- BIOS Setup Utility Tests -- IPMI Tests -- MultibootXP Tests -- OS Installation tests -- OS functional states (standby, shutdown, restart, log-off) tests -- Console Redirection Tests -- xMENU Tests -- Device (IDE, SIO, USB, SYMBIOS) Tests -- BIOS Utilities Tests -- BIOS Performance Tests (system responsiveness, power management transitions, start-up time SMI handling time, etc) For more information on Phoenix RDS, please visit: http://www.phoenix.com/en/Products/Browse+by+Products/Phoenix+Remote+Debug+Sta tion/default.htm About Phoenix Technologies Phoenix Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:PTEC) is the global market leader in system firmware that provides the most secure foundation for today's computing environments. The PC industry's top builders and specifiers trust Phoenix to pioneer open standards and deliver innovative solutions that will help them differentiate their systems, reduce time-to-market and increase their revenues. The Company's flagship products, AwardCore, SecureCore, FailSafe and HyperSpace, are revolutionizing the PC user experience by delivering unprecedented security, reliability and ease-of-use. The Company established industry leadership with its original BIOS product in 1983, has 155 technology patents and 139 pending applications, and has shipped in over one billion systems. Phoenix is headquartered in Milpitas, California with offices worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.phoenix.com/ Phoenix, Phoenix Technologies, Phoenix FailSafe, HyperSpace, HyperCore, PC 3.0 and the Phoenix Technologies logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Phoenix Technologies Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Contacts Worldwide: Shauli Chaudhuri Tel. +1 408-570-1060 E-mail: U.S.: Cedric Vanhaver or Jeff Smith Tel : +1 650-433-4154 Email : APAC: Peggy Han Tel. +886-2-8175-5658 Email: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070410/SFTU048LOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Phoenix Technologies Ltd. CONTACT: Worldwide, Shauli Chaudhuri, +1-408-570-1060, , or APAC, Peggy Han, +886-2-8175-5658, , both of Phoenix Technologies Ltd.; or U.S., Cedric Vanhaver or Jeff Smith, +1-650-433-4154, , for Phoenix Technologies Ltd. Web site: http://www.phoenix.com/

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