Intel

Founded in 1968 to build semiconductor memory products, Intel introduced the world's first microprocessor in 1971. Today, Intel supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks that are the "ingredients" of computers, servers and networking and communications products.

Bull, having identified very early the potential of the Itanium® Processor Family, established a collaboration with Intel in 1997, which enabled them to design and develop a range of servers based on this family of processors. Bull and Intel value each other’s technologies and share the same vision of the market; therefore they established a very close partnership right from the start of the FAME architecture (Flexible Architecture for Multiple Environments).

This co-operation ensures:

• For Bull, advanced access to Intel developments, use some of their components and design validation in line with Intel specifications.
• For Intel, to test their components within multiprocessor architecture and to integrate into their roadmaps the different needs related to the world of large servers.

Throughout this co-operation, there are regular exchanges of engineers between the laboratories of the two companies and some Bull prototypes are available for tests at Intel labs.

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