DeviceVM, the company that produces Splashtop, announced yesterday that their Linux distribution would get on four new models of ASUS motherboards. ASUS integrated Splashtop on the brand new P5Q family of products, so now there are twelve motherboards that run Splashtop. The new motherboard models are P5Q Deluxe, P5Q-WS, P5Q3 Deluxe and P5Q-E.

Mark Lee, co-founder and CEO of DeviceVM, said: "We are excited to have expanded our partnership with ASUS across many product lines. ASUS is not only a leading innovator in computer hardware, but is actively improving the entire PC consumer experience through software. We are excited to jointly drive the market innovation with ASUS."

ASUS branded Splashtop as "Express Gate", and it allows the users to access the Internet immediately after turning on the computer. There's no need of an operating system, as Splashtop is embedded directly in the motherboard, giving you all the basic applications you might use on a daily basis. You can surf the Web, read and send emails, chat, share photos, and much more, a few seconds after you start your computer. Splashtop appeared for the first time on high-end ASUS motherboards last year, in October, and launched on the mainstream M3 series in January, 2008.

Joe Hsieh, General Manager, ASUS Motherboard Business Unit, said: "In response to great user feedback, our plan is to proliferate Express Gate across our entire motherboard product portfolio, starting with over one million motherboards per month. Consumers want to turn their PCs on and off like any other appliance, and Express Gate has made that possible."

DeviceVM has big plans for this year: the company started to work with an increasing number of hardware manufacturers to incorporate Splashtop into computers; besides this, the Silicon Valley-based company is thinking about getting Splashtop on many motherboards, desktop computers and laptops.