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Intel Announces Final WTX Workstation Motherboard And Chassis SpecificationPALM SPRINGS, Calif., Sept. 17, 1998 - At the Intel Developers Forum '98, Intel Corporation announced the availability of the final WTX workstation motherboard and chassis specification. Details can be found at www.wtx.org. WTX has broad industry support from workstation OEMs Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intergraph, NEC, Siemans Nixdorf, and UMAX; motherboard vendors Acer, Asus, Supermicro and Tyan; and chassis and power supply vendors Chenbro, Enlight, Liteon, and Loyalty Founder. Many of these companies plan to ship WTX-compliant products in 1999. The WTX chassis specification, for midrange workstations, should result in a simplified design process and reduced development costs for OEMs manufacturing Intel-based workstations. The specifications include support for workstation features such as dual processing, large system memories, Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) 4x graphics specification and AGP Pro graphics cards, and high-bandwidth I/O. Intel continues to provide technical leadership and products to all facets of the workstation market segment. Through its efforts with industry leading OEM and application vendors, Intel has developed the new WTX system specification, which complements processor advancements such as the Pentium® II Xeon™ processor, and platform innovations such as AGP Pro. WTX-compliant motherboards and systems will include the following capabilities:
"The WTX motherboard form factor and chassis specification is another example of Intel driving processor and chip set technologies into the highest end of the workstation market segment," said Anand Chandrasekher, general manager of Intel's Workstation Products Division. "We are committed to the workstation market and working hard to make Intel-based workstations the first choice for users across all performance levels." "HP, the leading workstation supplier, supports this form factor specification," said Jean Charles Miard, general manager of the PC Workstation division at Hewlett Packard. "HP plans to ship WTX-compliant motherboards and chassis in 1999, leveraging the capabilities of WTX to provide state-of-the-art performance and the most innovative workstation features." "Compaq is pleased to be working with Intel to develop an industry standard workstation motherboard and chassis specification," said Les Crudele, vice president and general manager of Compaq's Workstation Division. "Initiatives like this allow us to deliver the robust features our workstation customers require." "Gateway is excited to see Intel working to drive industry standards into the workstation market segment," said Keith Karlsen, director of Product Development and Management, Enterprise Products. "Gateway supports the development of the WTX specification to further enhance and differentiate their professional workstation line." "The WTX form factor fills the void between industry standard PC and server components," said Dr. Satish Gupta, general manager, IBM Professional Workstation products. "IBM supports Intel's WTX initiative as the workstation industry specification for the next five years and beyond." "NEC supports Intel's efforts to define a form factor specification for multiple workstation generations and will ship WTX-compliant workstations in 1999," said Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Associate Senior Vice-President of NEC Corporation. "This effort directly addresses users' needs for the future and will allow NEC to aggressively penetrate the workstation marketplace." "In 1999, we will showcase our first WTX compliant performance workstations," said Dr. Bernd Kosch, director of the Workstation Technology Center, Siemens Nixdorf InformationsSysteme AG. "Adopting WTX will allow us to enhance the performance and features of our already leading workstation products." * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. |
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