NEC and HP collaborate on Itanium based serversTokyo 04 October 2000 NEC announced an agreement with Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) for IA-64 (Intel Architecture 64) server alliance expanding upon previous relations between two companies. NEC supplies its 16 way Itanium server (Code name AzusA) to HP as an OEM basis and HP will market AzusA world wide as a product in its family of HP9000 enterprise servers. HP develops and supplies its UNIX operating system (HP-UX) for IA-64.
NEC's strength lies in its high performance and high reliability technology based on its main frame and supercomputer development experience. NEC has been strategically focusing on planning and marketing IA-64 server product as it foresaw that IA-64 will be the main-stream processor for future server platforms due to projected superior performance and price competitiveness.
HP excels in its UNIX and IA-64 architecture technology and it drives further its IA-64 strategy to secure IA-64 HP-UX market leadership.
This alliance combines the strengths of both companies to create technical partnership to drive IA-64 product readiness and to secure HP-UX as an IA-64 UNIX market leader.
The AzusA server which plays key part in this alliance, employs the next generation Intel Itanium processor whose architecture was developed by HP and Intel Corporation, and NEC developed chip set which provides optimum performance in 16CPU Itanium Processor server. AzusA is the world's leading 16-way Itanium server and is the first server with proven capabilities to scale beyond four Itanium CPUs.
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