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|Website=https://www.insyde.com/
|Website=https://www.insyde.com/
|Description=Insyde Software is a Taiwanese proprietary UEFI Firmware developer based in Taipei with several global offices.
|Description=Insyde Software is a Taiwanese proprietary UEFI Firmware developer based in Taipei with several global offices.
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}}Insyde Software is a Taiwanese proprietary UEFI Firmware Development company based in Taipei, with a number of global offices.
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==Consumer-impact summary==
==Consumer-impact summary==
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Insyde develops a number of UEFI/BIOS products for a significant number of vendors, notably their flagship product InsydeH2O®<ref>{{Cite web |title=InsydeH2O® UEFI BIOS |url=https://www.insyde.com/products/insydeh2o/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260418010002/https://www.insyde.com/products/insydeh2o/ |archive-date=2026-04-18 |access-date=2025-05-02 |website=Insyde Software - Client Firmware Solutions}}</ref> Which they provide customized options for an overwhelming majority market share of consumer laptops, including (but not limited to), products from vendors such as [[HP]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-24 |title=Insyde UEFI Firmware February 2022 Security Updates |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220525111249/https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/ish_5862767-5862793-16/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260502022236/https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/ish_5862767-5862793-16/hpsbhf03778 |archive-date=2022-05-25 |access-date=2026-05-02 |website=HP Support (Australia)}}</ref>, [[Acer]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2021-06-01 |title=Insyde® Software Enables High-Performance PC Designs that Leverage AMD™ Ryzen 5000 Series APUs |url=https://www.insyde.com/news/press-releases/insyde-software-enables-high-performance-pc-designs-that-leverage-amd-ryzen-5000-series-apus/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250321081918/https://www.insyde.com/news/press-releases/insyde-software-enables-high-performance-pc-designs-that-leverage-amd-ryzen-5000-series-apus/ |archive-date=2025-03-21 |access-date=2026-05-02 |website=Insyde Software News & Industry Events}}</ref>, [[Alienware]]<ref name=":0" />, [[Fujitsu]]<ref name=":0" />, [[Lenovo]]<ref name=":0" />, [[Dell]]<ref name=":0" />[[Dell|,]] [[Framework]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-09 |title=Insyde® Software Powers Newly Launched Framework™ Modular Laptop |url=https://www.insyde.com/news/press-releases/insyde-software-powers-newly-launched-framework-modular-laptop/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250226160659/https://www.insyde.com/news/press-releases/insyde-software-powers-newly-launched-framework-modular-laptop/ |archive-date=2025-02-26 |access-date=2026-05-02 |website=Insyde Software News & Industry Events}}</ref> & [[Microsoft|Microsoft.]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-13 |title=Insyde® Software Powers Microsoft’s® Smallest and Lightest 2-in-1 Laptop |url=https://www.insyde.com/news/press-releases/insyde-software-powers-microsofts-smallest-and-lightest-2-in-1-laptop/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250321073823/https://www.insyde.com/news/press-releases/insyde-software-powers-microsofts-smallest-and-lightest-2-in-1-laptop/ |archive-date=2025-03-21 |access-date=2026-05-02 |website=Insyde Software News & Industry Events}}</ref>


==Incidents==
Their large proprietary firmware blobs (weighing in 16+ Megabytes) include headers and proprietary instructions and filesystems necessary for the boot and operation of all modern CPUs from [[Intel]], [[AMD]], [[Qualcomm]], and [[Broadcom Inc.|Broadcom.]]
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This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].
Included instructions encode chip vendor code to boot various surveillance programs such as the [[AMD Platform Security Processor|AMD PSP]], [[Intel Management Engine|Intel ME]], [[Google Cr50]] and [[Eclipse ThreadX]] which are heavily integrated into the cores, and essential to the boot sequence for the processor the user interfaces with.
===Example incident one (''date'')===
{{Main|link to the main CR Wiki article}}
Short summary of the incident (could be the same as the summary preceding the article).
===Example incident two (''date'')===
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==Products==
==Products==
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=== InsydeH2O ===


==See also==
==See also==