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To: Boplicity who wrote (88118)	1/7/1999 5:08:00 PM
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SInce mo is gone, I'll post some news. Intel gets backing for connection push By Stephen Shankland Staff Writer, CNET News.com January 7, 1999, 1:00 p.m. PT Dell Computer and Sun Microsystems are among the companies that will help Intel develop a new technology to connect computer processors and components, Intel announced today. Intel has been leading the effort to develop a server architecture, called Next-Generation Input/Output (NGIO), and has been working to convince other companies to support the NGIO system. Along with Dell and Sun, the other companies that will lead NGIO development are Hitachi, NEC, and Siemens. Those five companies, along with Intel, will make up the steering committee for the NGIO Industry Forum, a group open to anyone, Intel said. Conspicuously missing from the list of companies are IBM, Compaq Computer, and Hewlett-Packard, all major server companies that sell machines using Intel chips. Those three companies are leading a competing effort, called Future I/O, that uses a "switched fabric" technology similar to NGIO. Intel will provide more details on NGIO at its developer's conference in Palm Springs, which takes place from February 23 to 25. The Future I/O crowd, meanwhile, is feverishly trying to organize a developer's conference to take place before then.