SANTA CLARA, Calif. — September 1, 2009 — MontaVista® Software, Inc., the leader in embedded Linux® commercialization, today announced the general availability of new Market Specific Distributions (MSDs) of MontaVista Linux[] 6. By working closely with its semiconductor partners to deliver the right combination of features and functionality for each platform, MontaVista remains committed to providing the broadest hardware support in the embedded Linux market, and aligning the embedded Linux supply chain.

These MSDs are the first of a broad family of semiconductor feature-compatible, market specific Linux distributions announced in May. Built on a common framework, and optimized for the respective hardware platform and its target market, an MSD is designed to support the full breadth of functionality provided by the semiconductor vendors, be feature compatible with the semiconductor vendors’ Linux technology, and provide the value-add features and quality MontaVista is known for. MSD’s may be customized and optimized for the target application, allowing developers to easily create a tailored software distribution that fully exploits the hardware specific features.

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“The Market Specific Distributions in MontaVista Linux 6 are an important step forward in broadening ARM® core support for our expanding customer base,” said Kerry McGuire, director Strategic Alliances, ARM. “MontaVista and ARM have a proven track record of delivering commercial grade Linux on leading ARM platforms, and now with innovative tools like the MontaVista Integration Platform, ARM customers can harness the full power of commercial Linux to bring a diverse range of consumer products to market in less time. The continued release of MSDs targeting a growing number of ARM technology-based SoCs will further enhance the opportunities for OEMs to quickly create differentiated products.”

“The availability of the new MVL6 Market Specific Distributions designed specifically for Freescale processors is significant for our customers,” said Ravi Swaminathan, director of software ecosystem alliances at Freescale Semiconductor. “By having MSDs that are feature compatible with Freescale’s Linux technology, the innovation and effort we invested in driver development and optimization for our new processors is now available in a commercial Linux distribution. Our customers benefit by delivering products to market on a highly optimized, commercial quality, embedded Linux.”

“We are pleased that MontaVista is delivering new MVL6 Market Specific Distributions for MIPS® processor cores, which are widely used across many consumer electronics markets,” said Art Swift, vice president of marketing, MIPS Technologies. “The new SDK in MVL6 enables our customers to take full advantage of the open source community, while building on a commercial-quality Linux optimized for MIPS cores—including our multi-threaded, multiprocessor 1004K coherent processing system and our superscalar 74K core.”

“To deliver innovative products, our customers require broad platform support and feature compatibility with their semiconductor vendor’s hardware and software platforms,” said Patrick MacCartee, Director Product Management and Hardware Enablement Strategies, MontaVista. “We will continue to work closely with our semiconductor partners to deliver MSDs that support their innovation, new features, and higher performance. Our customers will enjoy the benefits of an aligned embedded Linux supply chain and faster time to development as a result. ”

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MontaVista Linux 6 Facts:

• MontaVista provides support for the broadest range of hardware platforms from each of the leading semiconductor vendors.

• MontaVista Linux 6 was announced May 12th, 2009 and made generally available on August 14th, 2009

• More than 40 MSD’s are being planned and developed and will be made available in the coming months.

Specific MVL6 Hardware Enablement in this announcement:

• Versatile ARM1176™ processor (arm_v6), Versatile ARM926™ processor(arm_v5)

• Freescale MPC8377, MPC8349, MPC8548, MPC8572

• Intel x86 Pentium and Xeon

• MIPS32® 1004K™, 24K®, 34K®, 74K® cores on Malta™ platform

• Xilinx ML 507 – Virtex 5 EDK Update

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MontaVista Software, Inc. is the leader in embedded Linux commercialization. For over 10 years, MontaVista has been helping embedded developers get the most out of open source by adding commercial quality, integration, hardware enablement, expert support, and the resources of the MontaVista development community. Because MontaVista customers enjoy faster time to market, more competitive device functionality, and lower total cost, more devices have been deployed with MontaVista than with any other Linux. To learn more, please visit www.mvista.com