Although Compaq Computer Corp has not followed Hewlett Packard Co and Data General Corp to Axil Computers Inc to provide it with NT servers supporting more than four processors, it has also rejected Intel Corp’s current four-way SHV technology in favor of multiprocessor technology developed elsewhere. Instead of using Intel’s four-way SHV motherboards for its ProLiant 5500, 3000 and 1600 highly parallel system architecture servers it launched last November, Compaq turned instead to Santa Clara, California- based Reliance Computer Corp, a company 60% owned by Fujitsu Ltd (although Fujitsu’s Japanese web site claims it is 100% owned). The Reliance technology first turned up in Compaq’s 5100 series workstations, and last June in the six-way Fujitsu ICL Teamserver range (CI No 3,192). It uses Reliance’s Champion chipset, with dual memory controllers and dual peer PCI buses to transfer data between each CPU and the memory and disk drive subsystems. Whether the Reliance technology will scale beyond six processors is not known. Reliance, which maintains a very low profile, refused to comment even on general questions about its operations, for reasons currently not clear.