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Silicon Valley- Chipset manufacturer Reliance Computer Corp. has changed its name to ServerWorks Corp. and opened its doors and some of its roadmap to public view.
The company, based in Santa Clara, Calif., has been a silent partner to many server and workstation OEMs, including Compaq Computer Corp., Dell Computer Corp., and Intergraph Computer Systems, since it was founded in 1994 by Raju Vegesna, president and chief executive. Now, in preparation for a planned public offering later this year, ServerWorks has tipped its hand on some of its future plans.
Analysts hold the company in high regard for its relationship with Intel Corp. ServerWorks is involved in a broad, 10-year bus- licensing agreement with Intel that expires in 2008. Theoretically, however, the company's products compete with Intel's 450NX and 840 high-end chipsets.
"Keep in mind that our main competitor is Intel," said ServerWorks' vice president of business development, Kimball Brown, a former Dataquest Inc. analyst. "But our best customer is Intel, too, and we're helping them sell lots of CPUs." For example, Brown expects to design and sample a board in April featuring Intel's next- generation processor, Willamette.
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