The gap left in Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG’s multiprocessing Unix system strategy by the withdrawl of Sequent Computer Systems Inc from the OEM business looks set to be filled by its existing RISC system supplier, Pyramid Technology Corp. The company plans today to unveil the RM600, which is thought to be the one-to-four processor Pyramid S series MIServer based on MIPS Computer Systems Inc’s R3000A part that Pyramid launched back in April. Pyramid already supplies servers to Siemens-Nixdorf as the Nixdorf Targon/35 family, which the company has said it will gradually phase out, however an interface machine, possibly linking the old to the new, is also to be revealed. Siemens-Nixdorf may also announce plans for systems based on the desktop version of MIPS’ newest part, the 64-bit R4000SC, which Siemens AG is fabricating. It is also working closely with Pyramid on the design of systems based on the R4000MP multi-processing MIPS part: Pyramid says that it will have R4000MP systems available at the beginning of 1993.
