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SiCortex President and CEO Christopher Stone says Intel's Nehalem Xeon EP processor addresses a performance bottleneck in previous Intel chip architectures but does little to address the industry's need for improved energy-efficiency.

SiCortex is one of the few HPC vendors who doesn’t have at least one product line in the Nehalem refresh fest that marked today’s chip launch.

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Another rival, SiCortex Inc., which makes high-performance servers based on internally designed chips, disputes the selling points of Nehalem. The Maynard, Mass., company claims its own systems are selling briskly, in part because of a design that draws much less power than systems using Intel or AMD chips. "If there is pent-up demand for Nehalem we don't see it," said Christopher Stone, SiCortex's chief executive officer.

As niche supercomputer-maker SiCortex works on the next generation of its line and watches the IT marketing machine gearing up for Intel's impending Nehalem-based Xeon EP, the company says that Chipzilla isn't moving in the right direction for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.