Intel Corp. plans to announce supercomputer
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Intel Corp introduces the Paragon XP/S supercomputer, which uses massively parallel processing. The product represents the company's increased competition with older supercomputer makers such as Cray Research Inc. The Paragon has up to 4,000 microprocessors, compared with Intel's older model with 128 processors operating at up go 7.6 Gflops. A 66 processing node Paragon costs $2 million, while a 4,000 node configuration costs $55 million. A prototype machine runs at five to 300 Gflops. Massively parallel supercomputers are a small but growing part of the supercomputer market. Sales are expected to grow 60 percent to $270 million in 1991. Intel uses its own off-the-shelf 860XP microprocessors and standard Unix operating systems, so its machines are much less expensive than Cray machines.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1991
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Intel to unveil supercomputer with low price
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Intel Corp will announce a new low-price supercomputer with combined groups of Intel's i860 microprocessor chips in a hypercube arrangement where each processor can communicate with each other. The iPSC/860 can string together up to 128 internal processors, offering processing power at a cost one-tenth that of Cray Research Inc's Y-MP computers. Intel is positioning itself in an expanding market for extremely high-speed computers. The IPSC/860 incorporates the i860 processor, a chip that uses reduced-instruction set computing technology, and can handle huge numbers of calculations.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1990
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Intel announces a line of workstations using its 386 and 486 microprocessors
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Intel Corp introduces the MicroSystem series of workstations. The machines will use Intel 80386 and 80486 microprocessor chips and will run the Unix operating system. Prices will range from $6,295 for the low-end Series 1000, which uses an 80386SX chip, to $14,595 for the Series 4000 machine, which uses an 80486 chip. Intel plans to sell the workstations to vendors who will place their own nameplates on the products. Intel already makes microcomputers and small supercomputers. This is the company's first move into the workstations market.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1990
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