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To: TimF who wrote (51313)	8/15/2001 7:15:35 PM
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Quid pro quo? For the conspiracy theorists out there here is a little something to think about. Intel to use IBM chip set to test new processors in large server applications Semiconductor Business News (08/15/01 17:08 p.m. EST) siliconstrategies.com ARMONK, N.Y.--IBM Corp. today said Intel Corp. has selected its server and chip set technology as a verification platform to test the upcoming Xeon MP and next-generation Itanium microprocessors. These tests will focus on "mainframe-like" features using multiple Intel processors. The announcement comes one day after IBM confirmed that it was dropping Duron processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in personal computers sold in North America (see Aug. 14 story). AMD's Athlon and Duron processors are still being used in IBM PCs sold in Japan and Asia. Today, IBM said Intel was testing 32-bit and 64-bit microprocessors using IBM's "Summit" chip set technology. These tests are intended to validate the new processors for deployment in enterprise-class servers, according to IBM. The U.S. computer maker said its Summit chip set provides the ability to link multiple microprocessors together for larger systems, adding "mainframe-like" features to an Intel MPU-based server. For example, IBM said, each Summit chip set joins as many as four Intel Xeon MP processors together to enable them to share resources such as I/O and memory. As much as a 20% increase in overall system performance can be achieved with the chip set connecting multiple processors, according to IBM. IBM said its Summit series will incorporate advanced PCI-X performance features to double data transfer rates.