Augmentum Joins ARM Connected Community

SHANGHAI, China and FOSTER CITY, Calif., March 31 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
Augmentum(TM), a leading service provider of value-added software development,
today announced it is a new member in the ARM(R) Connected Community, the
industry's largest ecosystem of ARM technology-based products and services. As
part of the ARM Connected Community, Augmentum will gain access to a full
range of resources to help it market and deploy innovative services that will
enable developers to get their ARM Powered(R) products to market faster.
"We are honored to join the ARM Connected Community. The Augmentum team
has a deep understanding of the ARM architecture and we are well suited to
support the ARM design and vision in our testing and development processes,"
said Wayne Hom, CTO of Augmentum. "Augmentum will bring its expertise in the
ARM architecture to the broad partner community, allowing all parties involved
to successfully expand reach in targeted markets."
Augmentum is a leading provider of offshore outsourcing for software
products and IT application development, with a focused ARM embedded software
competency center. The product development services include support for mobile
devices, consumer electronics, and storage systems with specific ARM services
consisting of software development and test covering firmware, device drivers,
board support packages, operating systems, middleware and applications.
Platform coverage includes Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Linux, Palm OS, and
BREW.
The ARM Connected Community is a global network of companies aligned to
provide a complete solution, from design to manufacture and end use, for
products based on the ARM architecture. ARM offers a variety of resources to
Community members, including promotional programs and peer-networking
opportunities that enable a variety of ARM Partners to come together to
provide end-to-end customer solutions. Visitors to the ARM Connected Community
have the ability to contact members directly through the website.
"The Connected Community is all about companies working together to
provide the most complete solutions in the shortest possible time. By joining
the Community, which now comprises more than 400 companies, Augmentum
increases the large portfolio of skills, and services that are centered around
the ARM architecture, and currently available to developers worldwide," said
Ian Thornton, director of Solutions Marketing for ARM.
For more information about the ARM Connected Community, please visit
www.arm.com/community.
About Augmentum
Augmentum provides outsourcing leadership for innovation. Augmentum
engineers augment their clients' teams as an extension, utilizing leading edge
development tools and technologies, as well as proven processes, to create
commercial-quality software. The management team has decades of collective
experience outsourcing commercial software and solutions. Augmentum, Inc. is
headquartered in Shanghai and Beijing in China and in Foster City, California.
The company has grown to 1,250 people in China out of 1,300 worldwide in four
years since its founding. Augmentum was awarded Founding Member of the
Community of Global Growth Companies, World Economic Forum 2007, Global
Services 100 in 2007 and Risk Management winner at the China Outsourcing
Summit in 2006 and is a Red Herring 100 company. For more information, please
visit www.augmentum.com or call (650) 578-9221 x104.
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ARM Holdings plc; its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional
subsidiaries ARM INC.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan; ARM France SAS; ARM
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AXYS GmbH; ARM Embedded Solutions Pvt. Ltd.; and ARM Physical IP, Inc.; and
ARM Norway AS.
SOURCE Augmentum

Lisa Carnochan of Augmentum USA, +1-650-578-9221, ext. 104,
lisa.carnochan@augmentum.com