IBM on Tuesday said it had pepped up a trio of its xSeries servers, designed for use in heavy-duty computing tasks.
Although the sale of servers based around Intel's Itanium chips will grow, they will still lag behind IBM and Sun, one research firm says.
Intel's chief executive, Craig Barrett, expects demand for computer chips to rise in the third and fourth quarters of this year, boosted by the "back-to-school" market and Christmas demand.
IBM will soon give supercomputing aficionados a glimpse of an Opteron chip-based system that is geared for high-performance tasks.
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Supercomputer expert Cray and Intel have entered a multi-year agreement on high-performance computing, a deal that seems to leave rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in the lurch.
Although the sale of servers based around Intel's Itanium chips will grow, they will still lag behind IBM and Sun, one research firm says.
The high-end server and workstation chip is to be up to 10 percent smaller than originally planned.
Intel fans got together this week in Taipei, Taiwan to attend the Intel Developer Forum, where the company planned to tout its designs on faster, more power-efficient chips and platforms as well as talk about technology trends.
Intel has released three new Xeon chips for four-and eight-processor servers in a move to increase the pressure on Sun Microsystems.
Advanced Micro Devices is set to unveil a pair of server chips, continuing its fledgling effort to become a fixture in the server market.
The chipmaker adds a new chip for 2004 and moves up the launch date of an Itanium with two processors.
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