BSQUARE Joins the Intel® Storage Community; BSQUARE Product and Service Offerings Accelerate Time to Market for Storage OEMs

Business Wire, Jan 12, 2006

BELLEVUE, Wash. -- BSQUARE (Nasdaq:BSQR), a leading provider of smart device solutions, today announced it has joined the Intel(R) Storage Community (ISC). BSQUARE has a strong commitment to providing leading-edge solutions in the storage market segment with SchemaBSP, a development tool that enables OEMs to use Microsoft(R) Windows(R) CE with Intel XScale(R) technology I/O processors to rapidly develop embedded disk storage products such as Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems for home networks, and world-class Professional Engineering Services to OEMs developing storage solutions. According to IDC's Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Tracker, factory revenue in the external disk storage systems market segment grew a record 12.5% year over year to $3.9 billion in the third quarter of 2005, the highest growth recorded since the inception of IDC's disk storage tracker in 2001. (source: www.idc.com)

BSQUARE's SchemaBSP development tool provides storage OEMs a three-step process for creating a board support package (BSP) for designs built around I/O processors from Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) and Windows CE. When used to augment the Microsoft Platform Builder tool, SchemaBSP reduces board bring up time for storage OEMs by up to 40% thus accelerating time to market.

"By using Windows CE with Intel's I/O processors, OEMs combine the networked, small-footprint, real-time capabilities of Windows CE with the cost advantage of Intel XScale technology and the flexibility of PCI functionality to fill growing demand for affordable, easy to manage storage," said Brian Crowley, president and CEO, BSQUARE. "BSQUARE makes our customers' jobs even easier by offering both development tools and engineering services that speed the time-to-market of innovative modular storage solutions."

Through its membership in the ISC, BSQUARE has early involvement with new Intel roadmaps for timely market delivery and joint activities in the strategic development of leading-edge storage solutions.

"BSQUARE provides options for OEMs seeking to take advantage of the latest Intel storage building block roadmaps, complemented by leading third-party solutions based on industry-standard architectures and form factors," said Mike Wall, general manager, Intel Storage Group Marketing. "ISC members such as BSQUARE are committed to designing and developing solutions based on Intel processor and platform architectures to help make storage less expensive, and easier to deploy and manage."

The Intel Storage Community is a community of storage developers and solution providers committed to the development of innovative standards-based storage solutions that are based on the latest Intel technologies and building blocks. To learn more, please visit: http://www.intel.com/design/network/Intel Storage Community/index.htm.

About BSQUARE

BSQUARE is a software solution provider to the global embedded device community. Committed to delivering quality, lowering project risk and cost as well as time to market, our teams collaborate with smart device makers at any stage in their device development. Our solution portfolio includes software and hardware development, systems integration services, reference designs, board support packages, middleware, and applications. As a full service provider, device makers can also license best-in-class software products and operating systems. Since 1994, BSQUARE has completed hundreds of successful projects and has become a trusted partner to smart device makers worldwide. For more information about BSQUARE, visit its website at www.bsquare.com.

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