Axil Computer to Incorporate Pentium Pro Processors With 1 Megabyte Cache In Its 8-Way Servers.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 18, 1997--Axil Computer, Inc. announced today its support of the Intel Pentium Pro The sixth generation of the Intel x86 family of CPU chips. The term may refer to the chip or to a PC that uses it. Introduced in 1995 as the successor to the Pentium, models from 150 MHz to 200 MHz were released. processor with 1 Megabyte of on-chip L2 cache (being announced by Intel today). Tests of Axil's Northbridge NX801 8-way server incorporating this processor have proven successful. Axil ax·il n. The upper angle between a lateral organ, such as a leafstalk, and the stem that bears it. [Latin axilla, armpit. expects to ship servers running on these processors early in the fourth quarter of 1997. Introduced last March, the Northbridge NX801 server is the industry's first eight-way server with Pentium Pro processors running the Windows NT operating system -- and the only one shipping. The NX801 server meets market demand for more powerful and scalable servers based on the Pentium Pro processor. Axil has shipped more than 30 systems to date to end users; while other server vendors are projecting first shipments of 8-way systems at the end of this year. Typical users of the Northbridge servers are filling the need for enterprise applications in electronic commerce, data warehousing, document management and collaborative computing. Gerry Talbot, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Axil Computer, said, "Our initial benchmarks indicate a 15 to 25 percent performance improvement of our Northbridge servers from this Intel upgrade: A significant increase of headroom for end users in high-growth server applications -- such as e-commerce and data warehousing." Reliability features include N+1 power supplies; N+1 fans; hot swappable power supplies, fans and disks; optional UPS; an I2C I2C Inter-Integrated Circuit I2C Intelligent Interface Controller I2C Intelligent Controller diagnostic bus that monitors memory, power supplies, fans, UPS, disks and CPUs; RAID levels 0, 1 and 5; and fault prediction for disks and memory. Currently shipping, the Northbridge NX801 accommodates up to eight 200 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Pentium Pro processors and provides 512KB of on-chip L2 cache memory. A maximum of 8GB of memory can be configured in the system, and its 24 hot-swappable drives allow an internal storage capacity of up to 216GB. The system also provides eight PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). expansion slots. High-speed system performance is guaranteed in two ways. First, the I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output subsystem features seven on-board UltraSCSI (Fast Wide SCSI-3) controllers. Secondly, the memory subsystem is based on the Axil-patented adaptive memory crossbar architecture, which connects up to eight CPUs to the 1GB per second SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. memory subsystem. About Axil Computer, Inc. Axil Computer, Inc., a subsidiary of Hyundai Electronics America, develops, manufactures, and markets SPARC-compliant workstations and Intel-based servers to the worldwide market. Based in Santa Clara, Axil sells its products through a worldwide network of value-added resellers and distributors. For additional information, contact Axil Computer directly at 800/284-AXIL, or visit Axil's website at http://www.axil.com . CONTACT: Axil Computer Gary Hines, 408/486-5447 ghines@axil.com or Sterling Communications, Inc. Carol Nash, 408/441-4100 cnash@sterlingpr.com |
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