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To: akidron who wrote (20070)	6/10/1998 3:21:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Proclamations of the death or commoditization of the high-end CPU may be a tad premature: nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com Excerpt: Differentiating Products by Multiprocessors The function and quality of a PC server are important for gaining a reasonable share in the PC server market. However, it is not easy to provide a PC server whose selling point is functionality. Disk arrays can functionally differentiate products, but they still fall short in their appeal to clients choosing a PC server. What dominant PC server manufacturers consider an area of concentration for differentiating their products is a machine compatible with multiprocessors for enterprises. As long as a server is built using chip sets provided by Intel Corp., it can currently mount at most four Pentium Pro or two Pentium II processors. Therefore, makers are developing a multiprocessor machine with breakthrough functions that go beyond that restriction so that they can demonstrate their level of technology and gain confidence from clients. NEC now has a PC server that can mount up to eight Pentium Pro processors, while Fujitsu developed a PC server with up to six Pentium Pro processors. NEC adopted a chip set called AQUA that is an original design. Fujitsu is using the so-called Champion chip set developed by Reliance Computer Corp. of the United States, a subsidiary of Fujitsu. Both companies also revealed plans to develop a new type of PC server with a Pentium II Xeon, Intel's new processor that performs at 400MHz to 450MHz. The number of Pentium II Xeons to be mounted on NEC's server is reportedly 16, and that on Fujitsu's server is 16 to 32. In the U.S. market, Hewlett-Packard Co. succeeded in developing and manufacturing a PC server which can mount a maximum of eight Pentium Pro processors using a chip set from Axil Computer Inc. of the United States. However, HP has not provided this product in Japan.