Insyde Software () is a company that specializes in

UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI, as an acronym) is a Specification (technical standard), specification for the firmware Software architecture, architecture of a computing platform. When a computer booting, is powered on, the UEFI ...

system

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and engineering support services, primarily for OEM and ODM computer and component device manufacturers. They are listed on the Gre Tai Market of Taiwan and headquartered in

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, with offices in

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, and

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Overview

InsydeH20 UEFI security custom Secure Boot screenshot

The company's product portfolio includes InsydeH2O

BIOS In computing, BIOS (, ; Basic Input/Output System, also known as the System BIOS, ROM BIOS, BIOS ROM or PC BIOS) is a type of firmware used to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs and to perform hardware initialization d ...

(Insyde Software's implementation of the Intel Platform Innovation Framework for UEFI/EFI), BlinkBoot, a UEFI-based

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for enabling

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devices, and Supervyse, which is a full-featured systems management/ BMC firmware for providing

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remote management for server computers. Insyde Software was formed when it purchased the

assets of SystemSoft Corporation (NASDAQ:SYSF) in October, 1998. Initially Insyde Software was a company that included investments from Intel Pacific Inc., China Development Industrial Bank,

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(PCT), company management and selected employees. At that time, Insyde Software's management team consisted of Jeremy Wang, Chairman (also the Chairman of PCT); Jonathan Joseph, President (a former founder of SystemSoft); Hansen Liou, the General Manager of Taiwan Operations and Asia-Pacific Sales, and Stephen Gentile, the Vice President of Marketing. Shortly after the initial investment, the company was introduced by

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to a new BIOS coding architecture called EFI (now

) and the two companies began working together on it. In 2001, the two companies entered into a joint development agreement and Insyde's first shipment of the technology occurred in October 2003 as InsydeH2O UEFI BIOS. Since that time, UEFI has become the mainstay of Insyde's business. On 23 January 2003, Insyde Software announced its initial public offering on the

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(GTSM) based in

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Products

InsydeH2O UEFI BIOS

The product is a proprietary licensed

BIOS firmware that supports

and

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. PC manufacturers buy the BIOS source code and modify the source code to meet their specific BIOS needs. For the firmware's security vulnerabilities, the company publishes the security advisory, and provides the updates on the CVE fixes and patches to their customers. In December 2023, Binarly (a security firm) published a set of vulnerabilities discovered on a number of bios chips which they termed " LogoFAIL", including Insyde's. The firm highlighted that malicious actors can bypass boot security protocols using the mentioned set.

References

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Overview

Products

InsydeH2O UEFI BIOS

See also

References