Climate Savers Joins Forces with New Partners at the U.S. EPA and in China

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OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Climate Savers Computing Initiative
(CSCI) announced this week two significant partnerships: one finds the
group joining with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to
speed the adoption of Energy Star-rated products, and another marks the
group's biggest step into China to date.

Over the next three years, the CSCI will work with the EPA to develop
technical specifications and promote the use of energy-efficient PCs
and servers and the use of power management to enterprises and
consumers.

And at the Intel Developer Forum in China this week, the CSCI signed a
memorandum of understanding with the China Electronics Energy Saving
Committee (CEESC), the first organization to push for a more energy
efficient computing infrastructure within China. Under the terms of the
MoU, the groups will collaborate and share technologies and information
toward the goal of significantly dropping the energy used by computers
within China and those sold abroad.

"Over the past half year we are glad to see that the Chinese IT
industry has actively engaged in energy conservation," said Liu Rulin,
secretary general of the Chinese Institute of Electronics and
co-chairman of the CEESC at a signing ceremony for the partnership. "By
working with the CSCI we will formulate the best known methods of
energy efficiency and promote them to the industry and end users."

Climate Savers, which was created in June 2007, has set a goal of
cutting the amount of power used by computers in half by 2010.
Companies that join the initiative commit to purchasing high-efficiency
computer equipment, maximizing the power management capabilities of
existing machines and steadily increasing the efficiency of computers
purchased in coming years.

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