With Hewlett-Packard Co threatening to encroach on its market area Pyramid Technology Corp, a pioneer in the high-end RISC server marketplace, is expected to fight back next month with new hardware that, according to one source, will make Hewlett-Packard look small. The new machines are expected to appear first through Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA, one of Pyramid’s OEM partners, thought to be readying a 24-way version of its Pyramid re-badged LSX range for a mid-June introduction. Current Pyramid Corporate MIServers have up to 12 33MHz MIPS Computer Systems Inc R3000 processors, and are rated at up to 468 transactions per second. The new iterations will feature a higher clock speed processor and two chips per board. Another Pyramid OEM customer, Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG, is said to have been working closely with the company on R4000-based systems. Software for the Unix System V.4-based machines include network management and a suite of capacity planning software written in-house which is being offered to Unix International Inc as a potential standard component.
