virtualization.info broke the news two weeks ago and now Phoenix Technology finally confirms:
Phoenix Technologies Ltd., the global leader in core systems firmware, today announced Phoenix HyperSpace, an innovative platform that promises to ignite a PC revolution by transforming the mobile personal computing experience.
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The HyperSpace platform provides a unique computing environment that PC designers, security innovators and content providers can use to create instant-on applications that are available before, during, and after Windows boot up and shut down. Operating like self-contained appliances, these purpose-built applications will be embedded into new computers by PC system vendors. Next-generation PC users will benefit from one-click remote system maintenance, repair, lower battery consumption and embedded security providing stronger protection than is currently available, along with a host of possible applications and content such as instant-on multi-media players, IP soft phones, email, instant messaging, Web 2.0 browsing, safe shopping and more. Phoenix has already demonstrated prototype, proof-of-concept applications that show the possibilities of the new HyperSpace platform.
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The HyperSpace platform is enabled by an efficient hypervisor from Phoenix called HyperCore, which is embedded within the core system firmware, or BIOS. HyperCore is a lightweight Zoned Virtual Machine Monitor (ZVMM) that runs specialized core services side-by-side with Windows…
Phoenix didn’t provide any timeframe for the release of HyperCore but got anyway a positive answer from Wall Street with a growth of 7.61%:
