The alliance will initially focus on the development of hardware and software solutions to enhance the memory bandwidth and scalability of Intel Xeon processor-based platforms. Such enhancements are intended to benefit systems targeting not only the very high end of the scientific computing market segment, but also smaller HPC installations.

Richard Dracott, general manager of High Performance Computing at Intel, said: "Intel's substantial investment in the Intel architecture, including the development of processors, chipsets, software compilers and other related products has expanded the usages of Intel Xeon processors in both the volume and high-end HPC market segments. With NEC further innovating on Intel Xeon processor-based systems, Intel is poised to bring Intel Xeon processor performance to an even wider supercomputing audience."

In March, Intel invested in a new high-performance computing research facility in France as part of a five-year collaboration. The lab, which is part of the Intel Labs Europe initiative, was designed as an exascale HPC center focused on hardware and software optimization.

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The company explained that as the demand for new features in automotive infotainment systems grows at a fast pace, there is a growing need for high CPU performance to keep pace, and at the same time, small power consumption is required. NEC said that its EC-4260 and EC-4250 SoCs address these needs with a multi-core approach. Using three ARM-11 cores from ARM, the EC-4260 SoC operates at 1440 MIPS (at 400 MHz), while the EC-4250 performs 960 MIPS using two ARM-11 cores. Basing these devices on an industry-standard core gives design engineers access to a wide array of software elements, which will both shorten design time and lower software development costs. The multi-core architecture also supports symmetrical multi-processing (SMP) mode. In this mode, a single version of the operating system (OS) is running on multiple cores, and tasks are dynamically allocated to cores at runtime, maximizing the utilization of available processing power.

NEC Electronics' new devices also include a graphics processing unit (GPU) that realizes 2D/3D imaging. The EC-4260 SoC enables 2D/3D imaging and supports OpenGL ES and OpenVG specifications. The EC-4250 enables 2D imaging and supports the OpenVG specification. These features provide graphics software compatibility contributing to faster time-to market for system designers.

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