Intel will manufacture complete servers and other components based on its upcoming Itanium 2 processor as a way to smooth acceptance in the market for the server chip.
The upcoming product family, code-named Tiger, will include motherboards, chipsets, enclosures and a complete four-processor Itanium 2 server, according to a company representative. Intel will not sell these products to the general public, but to computer manufacturers, which will then re-brand them as their own or incorporate them into their own products.
The Tiger family will come out in the second half of the year. Itanium 2, formerly code-named McKinley, is expected in July. Although Intel derives the bulk of its revenue from selling chips, the company has steadily expanded into motherboards, chipsets and, in some instances, complete computer design. Both Hewlett-Packard and IBM, for instance, sell servers for the telecommunications industry under their own respective brands that were designed and primarily put together by Intel.
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