Wave Completes Licensing with Intel for EMBASSY® Trust Suite Software with New Intel Desktop Motherboards
Lee, MA– September 5, 2006 – Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ:WAVX www.wave.com) today announced the execution of an amendment to its Software License and Distribution Agreement with Intel®. The amendment permits Intel® to ship the next version of Wave's EMBASSY® Trust Suite with Intel's new Intel® P965 Express Chipset-based Intel® Desktop Boards for trusted personal computers . Wave's EMBASSY® Trust Suite (ETS) 5.1 is a new and simplified collection of practical, easy-to-use applications which leverage the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) hardware security chip. Wave's ETS is combined with the TPM and bundled with Intel® Desktop Boards DQ965WC , DQ965CO and DQ965GF to provide a final layer of security. Upon the commencement of Intel's shipment of products under this new amendment, the number of Intel Desktop Boards on which Wave's products are shipped will increase to 15. The agreement does not provide for guaranteed minimum or maximum shipped quantities or royalties.
Wave's ETS software is a trusted applications and services software security suite designed to be compliant with Trusted Computing Group (TCG) specifications. The computer industry has shipped tens of millions of PCs embedded with TPMs, the Trusted Computing Group-defined, next-generation security chip hardware. Wave has designed its security applications to work with all commercially available TPMs, including the version 1.2 chip.
“Wave's solutions are designed to leverage the TPM for stronger, standards-based network access, authentication, data protection and password management solutions that business users can leverage immediately for security and management,” said Brian Berger, executive vice president, marketing and sales, Wave Systems. “We are pleased to have completed this amendment to include Wave's 4 th generation of EMBASSY solutions on Intel's products. The ETS 5.1 is a new simplified set of applications that will be bundled with desktop boards based on the Intel P965 Express Chipset family that complements Intel® vPro™ technology.” |
