AMD Opteron partner Newisys "talking to" Dell, IBM, HP others

THE AMERICAN-STATESMAN, based in Austin, said that Newisys has received $25 million in extra financing.

The firm is a close partner of AMD, and the paper quotes ex-IBM exec Phil Hester, the CEO of Newisys, saying it was seeing "a huge early demand" for Opteron-based systems.

The paper said Newisys had shipped 30 prototype Opteron systems and is talking to Dell, Sun, HP, IBM and NEC.

He is quoted as saying that one or more of these firms will buy Newisys Opteron technology.

The firm will ship between 500 and 1,000 machines when the Opteron is launched next spring.

Newisys will keep out of making the boxes itself and is using a contractor to assemble the boxes, as well as licensing its designs to system integrators.

Hester said in the article that the Opteron machines will be tied together in low cost supercomputers.

You can find the article here. Thanks to AMD Zone for the tip. µ

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